W. M. Murray Lecture
William M. Murray Lecture was initiated in 1952 as the Society’s prestige lecture.
It is presented each year as a continuing honor to Dr. William MacGregor Murray, first president and long-time secretary-treasurer, for his many contributions to SEM.
2025 Recipient
For your pioneering contributions to dynamic thermomechanical behavior and fracture of materials, and experimental mechanics.
Daniel Rittel
Prof. Daniel Rittel, formerly the Zandman Chair in Experimental Mechanics and head of the Materials Mechanics Center, is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Technion. D. Rittel was the Clark B. Millikan Visiting Professor in Aeronautics (2007) at Caltech where he holds a Visiting Associate position. He was the....
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The Society acknowledges the following individuals who were given the W. M. Murray Lecture in the past.
| 2024 - Ghatu Subhash | 2023 - Zdeněk Bažant | 2022 - Peter Ifju |
| 2021 - Nancy Sottos | 2020 - Janice M. Barton | 2019 - Kyung-Suk Kim |
| 2018 - Fu-pen Chiang | 2017 - Kenneth M. Liechti | 2016 - Horacio Espinosa |
| 2015 - K.T. Ramesh | 2014 - G. Ravichandran | 2013 - Michael A. Sutton |
| 2012 - Gary L. Cloud | 2011 - Arun Shukla | 2010 - Hillar Aben |
| 2009 - Sia Nemat-Nasser | 2008 - Ryszard J. Pryputniewicz | 2007 - David L. Brown |
| 2006 - Donald A. Shockey | 2005 - Ares J. Rosakis | 2004 - Krishnaswamy Ravi -Chandar |
| 2003 - Christian P. Burger | 2002 - William N. Sharpe, Jr. | 2001 - Cesar A. Sciammarella |
| 2000 - Gene E. Maddux | 1999 - Karl A. Stetson | 1998 - Isaac M. Daniel |
| 1997 - Rodney J. Clifton | 1996 - Jorg F. Kalthoff | 1995 - Wolfgang G. Knauss |
| 1994 - Kenneth G. McConnell | 1993 - C.W. Smith | 1992 - Hal F. Brinson |
| 1991 - H. Fessler | 1990 - Michael E. Fourney | 1989 - John F. Bell |
| 1988 - M. Nisida | 1987 - Darrell R. Harting | 1986 - Egor P. Popov |
| 1985 - E. Somer | 1984 - C.C. Perry | 1983 - Albert S. Kobayashi |
| 1982 - R. Mark | 1981 - L.J. Broutman | 1980 - A. Bray |
| 1979 - James W. Dally | 1978 - R.K. Muller | 1977 - W.E. Cooper |
| 1976 - J.E. Starr | 1975 - N.M. Newmark | 1974 - C.E. Taylor |
| 1973 - G.R. Irwin | 1972 - Milton M. Leven | 1971 - Daniel Post |
| 1970 - B.F. Langer | 1969 - T.J. Dolan | 1968 - C. Lipson |
| 1967 - Daniel C. Drucker | 1966 - E. Wenk, Jr. | 1965 - August J. Durelli |
| 1964 - S.S. Manson | 1963 - H.L. Dryden | 1962 - R.D. Mindlin |
| 1961 - E. Orowan | 1960 - Rudolph E. Peterson | 1959 - Max M. Frocht |
| 1958 - N. J. Hoff | 1957 - C.E. Crede | 1956 - Benjamin J. Lazan |
| 1955 - A.C. Ruge | 1954 - Miklos Hetényi | 1953 - Steven Timoshenko |
| 1952 - William M. Murray |