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Liviu Librescu
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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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Sinking deltas due to human activities
· 2009 · cited 2,061x
- Integrated Systems Approach Identifies Genetic Nodes and Networks in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
· 2013 · cited 1,588x
- <scp>Molcas</scp> 8: New capabilities for multiconfigurational quantum chemical calculations across the periodic table
· 2015 · cited 1,413x
- Structure and Spectroscopy of Copper−Dioxygen Complexes
· 2004 · cited 1,306x
- The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units
· 2008 · cited 1,077x
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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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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liviu Librescu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.