Valery I. Levitas
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Honors and Awards
- ASME Fellow (2007)
- Essential Science Indicator: Emerging Research Fronts Paper in Mathematics in August 2006
A. Mielke, F. Theil, and V.I. Levitas. A variational formulation of rate-independent phase
transformations using an extremum principle. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 162: 137-177, 2002.
- Barnie E. Rushing, Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Award (Texas Tech University, 2005)
- American Medal of Honor (American Biographical Institute, 2004)
- Best Professor Award (Pi Tau Sigma, Mechanical Engineering Department TTU, Fall 2001)
- Richard von Mises Award of GAMM (Society of Applied Mathematics Mechanics) (1998)
- International Journal of Engineering Sciences Distinguished Paper Award (1995)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Germany (1993 - 1995)
- Medal of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences for the best research work of young investigators (1984)
- Award of the Union of Scientific-Technical Societies of the USSR for the research work of young investigators (1982)
- Award of the Ministry of High Education of the USSR for the best student research work in the natural science (1978)
Listed in
- Top 100 Scientists 2008, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2008)Â
- Asian-American Who is Who (2008)
- Cambridge Blue Book, International Biographical Centre (2007)
- Marquis Who Is Who (2006)
- Who Is Who in American Education (2005, 2006, 2007)
- Great Minds of the 21st Century (2003, 2004)
- 1000 Great Americans (2003, 2004)
- 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (2002, 2003, 2004)
- Who Is Who in Science and Engineering (2005, 2006, 2008)
- Who is Who in America (2002, 2003, 2004)
- Dictionary of International Biography (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007)
- Lexington Who Is Who (1999)
- Who Is Who in the World (1999, 2000, 2001)
