Engineering. Honours Zienkiewicz received over 30 honorary degrees from Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, China, Poland, Scotland, Wales, France, England, Italy, Portugal, Hungary and the United States. He was elected to a number of learned societies, including: Royal Society Royal Academy of Engineering, 1979 United States National Academy of Engineering (foreign member) Polish Academy of Science Italian National Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences He has been the recipient of many honours, awards, and medals. including Commander of the Order of the British Empire Royal Medal (Royal Society) Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal (West German Academy of Science) Nathan Newmark Medal (American Society of Civil Engineers) Newton Gauss Medal (International Association for Computational Mechanics) Gold Medal (Institution for Mathematics and its Applications) Gold Medal (Institution of Structural Engineers) Timoshenko Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Prince Philip Medal (Royal Academy of Engineering), Zienkiewicz has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. He was instrumental in setting up the association of computational mechanics in engineering (ACME) for the United Kingdom in 1992 and was the honorary president for the association for the rest of his life. The Institution of Civil Engineers awards a prize in his honour biennially. The Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize was instituted in 1998 following a donation by John Wiley & Sons Ltd to commemorate his work in Numerical Methods in Engineering. References Bibliography O. C. Zienkiewicz, As I Remember, Timoshenko Medal acceptance speech presented at the ASME applied mechanics annual dinner in 1998. Zienkiewicz, O. C. (1945), Classical theories of gravity dam design in the light of modern analytical methods. PhD Thesis, Imperial College, University of London. Imperial College Alumni, Professor Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz Swansea University, College of Engineering, Professor Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz See also Imperial College Civil & Environmental Engineering IStructE Gold Medal winners 1921 births 2009 deaths English people of Polish descent Numerical analysts Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Swansea University Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society Royal Medal winners People from Caterham Academics of the University of Edinburgh Northwestern University faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering