Willard Gibbs Medal Award.

Poiseuille Gold Medal Award ceremony. Presentation address.

Mr. Chairman, Members of our Society and of this Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great privilege and gives me pleasure as the last recipient of the Poiseuille Gold Medal Award to give you a brief account of the scientific activities and contributions of the person whom The International Society of Biorheology has chosen to honor at this our Congress at The Weizmann Institute of Science h...

Presentation of the 2014 Founders' Medal Award.

Mr. President, colleagues and guests. I am honored and proud to present this year’s Southern Society of Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Founders’Medal to my longtime colleague and friend Monica Farley (Figure 1). For those in the audience who are having a feeling of déjà vu, I can reassure you that the feeling is correct in that I stood here last year and presented the Founders’ Medal to Dr. Jess...

Patterns in Eigenvalues: the 70th Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture

Typical large unitary matrices show remarkable patterns in their eigenvalue distribution. These same patterns appear in telephone encryption, the zeros of Riemann’s zeta function, a variety of physics problems, and in the study of Toeplitz operators. This paper surveys these applications and what is currently known about the patterns.

Remarks Made on Acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award.

.0 say that I deeply appreciate the honor you have bestowed upon me would be a very true but also very incomplete statement of my feelings. Even though you have given me ten months to grow into the position of the recipient of the Proctor award, I still have serious misgivings about my qualifications. I am being haunted by a quotation from an early English comedy by George Chapman, which goes a...

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award, June, 1957.