ASTM honorary member 1974 - American Society for Metals Sauveur Award 1976 - The Grande Medaille Award of the French Metallurgical Society of France 1977 - ASME Nadai Award 1977 - B. J. Lazan Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics 1977 - Honorary degree, doctor of engineering, Lehigh University 1977 - Election to the National Academy of Engineering 1978 - ASTM-Irwin Award 1979 - Francis J. Clamer Clauier Medal of the Franklin Institute 1982 - Governor’s Citation for Distinguished Service to Maryland 1982 - Tetmajer Award of the Technical University of Vienna, Austria 1985 - Fellow, Society for Experimental Mechanics 1986 - ASME Timoshenko Medal 1987 - ASM Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering and Science 1987 - Elected to foreign membership, British Royal Society 1988 - ASTM Fracture Mechanics Award and the George R. Irwin Medal 1989 - Honorary membership in Deutscher Verband für Material Prufung 1990 - Honorary membership in the American Ceramic Society 1990 - Albert Sauveur Lecture Award 1992 - George R. Irwin Research Award, University of Maryland 1993 - Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame at the University of Maryland 1998 - A. James Clark Outstanding Commitment Award University of Maryland 1998 - Appointed Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering References Bibliography Dally, James W.,George R. Irwin, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 10 (2002), p 146-153, National Academy of Engineering (NAE). http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309084571/html/146.html 1907 births 20th-century American engineers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Lehigh University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering 1998 deaths Foreign Members of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Knox College (Illinois) alumni