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Liviu Librescu
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Liviu Librescu was a male engineer, pedagogue, professor, and mathematician who worked in the field of aerodynamics. He held citizenship in the United States, Israel, and Romania. His professional career included positions at Virginia Tech and Tel Aviv University. He was educated at the Politehnica University of Bucharest and the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Librescu spoke English and Romanian.
He received the Order of the Star of Romania. Librescu authored seven works, including *Aerolasticity of Lifting Surfaces and Thin-Walled Bodies*, *Thin-walled composite beams*, and *Non-classical problems of the theory and behavior of structures exposed to complex environmental conditions*. He was born in Ploiești in 1930. He died in 2007 at Virginia Tech from a gunshot wound inflicted by Seung-Hui Cho. He was buried in Ra'anana.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Aerolasticity of Lifting Surfaces and Thin-Walled Bodies
- Thin-walled composite beams
- Thin-walled composite beams
- Non-classical problems of the theory and behavior of structures exposed to complex environmental conditions
- The behavior of elastic anisotropic laminated composite flat structures
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Key facts
- Born
- August 18, 1930, Ploiești , Kingdom of Romania
- Died
- April 16, 2007 (2007-04-16) (aged 76), Blacksburg, Virginia , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Gunshot wounds
- Citizenship
- Israel, United States , Romania
- Alma mater
- Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Known for
- Research in aeroelasticity and aerodynamics
- Fields
- Engineering
- Institutions
- Virginia Tech , Tel Aviv University , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Place of birth
- Ploiești
- Place of death
- Virginia Tech
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Romanian Academy of Sciences
- Employer
- Tel Aviv University
- Languages spoken
- Romanian
- Field of work
- aerodynamics
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- killed by
- Seung-Hui Cho
- date of birth
- 1930-08-18
- date of death
- 2007-04-16
- manner of death
- homicide
- place of burial
- Ra'anana
- name in native language
- Liviu Librescu
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
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Encyclopedic overview
Liviu Librescu ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈlivju liˈbresku]; Hebrew: ליביו ליברסקו; August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian–Israeli-American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics.
Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor. Coincidentally, Librescu's act of heroism happened on Nisan 27 in the Jewish lunar calendar. That date is Yom HaShoah, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
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