Louis Landweber

Landweber received in 1932 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. After graduation, he became a physicist at the United States Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard. He received a master's degree in physics from George Washington University. Starting in 1940, he led a research group for mine-sweeping and other war-related activities. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and was promoted to the head of the hydrodynamics division of the David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland, before leaving for a professorship at the University of Iowa. There he was a research engineer at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research as well as a professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Iowa, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.[1]

... Landweber supervised more than 50 masters and doctoral students and served as author, co-author or editor of approximately 150 technical papers, reports, monographs and books in the fields of hydrodynamics and naval architecture.[1]

Upon his death he was survived by his wife, two sons, and four grandchildren.[1] His elder son is the mathematician Peter Landweber (born 1940) and his younger son is the photographer Victor Landweber (born 1943).[2][3][4]

• 1947 — U. S. Navy's Distinguished Meritorious Civilian Service Award
• 1978 — David W. Taylor Lecturer at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center
• 1978 — Davidson Medal from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
• 1979 — special conference organized in his honor, the Third Engineering Mechanics Division Specialty Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers
• 1980 — election to the National Academy of Engineers[5]
• 1993 — Sixth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics held in his honor in Iowa City