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.
2026 Recipient
For outstanding contributions to the application of mechanics to the development of medical devices for advancing the human experience.
Wendy C. Crone
Wendy C. Crone is Karen Thompson Medhi Professor Emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research is in experimental solid mechanics, and many of the topics she has investigated are connected with nanotechnology and biotechnology. She has improved fundamental understanding...
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The Society acknowledges the following individuals who were given the W. M. Murray Lecture in the past.
| 2025 - Daniel Rittel | 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 |