Society of Scholars
To honor the significant accomplishments of men and women who spent part of their careers at Johns Hopkins, the Society of Scholars was created by the board of trustees in May 1967 on the recommendation of former president Milton S. Eisenhower.
The society—the first of its kind in the nation—inducts former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting faculty at Johns Hopkins who have gained marked distinction in their fields of physical, biological, medical, social or engineering sciences or in the humanities and for whom at least five years have elapsed since their last Hopkins affiliation.
Two of the 15 scholars elected in 2001 were former members of the Department of Mechanics at JHU, (now Mechanical Engineering), and one, Wolfgang Kollman, was elected in absentia in 2000 and was able to join us this year for the induction ceremony, held May 23 at the Evergreen House.
Ron F. Blackwelder, professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California.
At Hopkins: Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanics, May to September 1970. Nominated by Andrea Prosperetti.
Ron Blackwelder has made seminal contributions in the areas of turbulence, flow
stability, drag reduction, and instrumentation.
Michael A. Hayes, professor of mathematical physics in the Department of Mathematical Physics, University College Dublin.
At Hopkins: Postdoctoral fellow in the Mechanics Department, 1961–62. Nominated by Marc Parlange.
A professor in the Department of Mathematical Physics at University College Dublin, Michael Hayes has done pioneering work in all areas of mechanics. In particular, wave propagation in materials, deformation of materials and fluid mechanics.
Wolfgang Kollmann, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis.
At Hopkins: Fellow in the Department of Mechanics and Materials Science, 1973–75. Nominated by Marc Parlange and Charles Meneveau.
Recognized as a world leader in the study of turbulence, turbulent combustion, and numerical simulation of turbulent flows, Wolfgang Kollmann has over the past 25 years advanced the state of the art in the solution of important engineering problems associated with complex flows.
