The Stanley Corrsin Memorial Lecture
A Philadelphia native, Professor Stanley Corrsin completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his Ph.D. in aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. He was the first graduate student of Hans Liepmann, a pioneer in fluid mechanics. Professor Corrsin joined the Johns Hopkins aeronautics department in 1947, and was affiliated with the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics, and Mechanics and Materials Science. He served as department chair of mechanical engineering from 1955 to 1960. In 1979, he helped found the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1981, he was appointed to the Theophilus Halley Smoot Chair of Engineering at Johns Hopkins.
Professor Corrsin was an American Academy of Engineering Fellow and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pennsylvania. He was also awarded the von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Though he received many honors as a researcher, he always preferred the title "Professor of Fluid Mechanics."
His death in 1986 prompted the initiation of the Stanley Corrsin Lecture in Fluid Mechanics. The Lecture series is made possible by the Stanley Corrsin Fund, established at Johns Hopkins by friends and former students of Professor Corrsin.
Previous Honored Corrsin Lecturers
- 2011 - Charles Meneveau
Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University - 2010 - Kate Stebe
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania - 2009 - Eric R. Weeks
Physics, Emory University - 2008 - Juan J. de Pablo
Chemical Engineering, Wisconsin-Madison - 2007 - Sandra M. Troian
California Institute of Technology - 2006 - Stephen Quake
Bioengineering, Stanford University - 2005 - Michael Brenner
Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
Harvard University - 2003 - Eric Shaqfeh
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University - 2002 - Chia Chang
Chemical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame
- 2000 - Howard Stone
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University - 1998 - Donald L. Koch
Chemical Engineering, Cornell University - 1996 - Sangtae Kim
Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - 1995 - John F. Brady
Chemical Engineering, Caltech - 1993 - Jonathan Higdon
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois - 1991 - Julio M. Ottino
Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University - 1990 - Gary Leal
Chemical Engineering, University of
California at Santa Barbara - 1988 - Hasson Aref
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,
University of Illinois - 1987 - K. R. Sreenivasan
ICTP, Trieste
