What is Jan D. Achenbach?
[[File:Mos 05achenbach h (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Jan Drewes Achenbach''' (20 August 1935 – 22 August 2020) was a Dutch-American engineer, editor and educator. He was professor emeritus (Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor) at [[Northwestern University]]. Achenbach was born in the northern region of the Netherlands, in [[Leeuwarden]]. He worked as a [[preceptor]] at [[Columbia University]], he was then appointed as assistant professor at [[Northwestern University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/fac/achenbach/ |title=Professor Achenbach, Research |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=2 February 2013 |archive-date=10 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610192450/http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/fac/achenbach/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Achenbach is the founding editor-in-chief of ''[[Wave Motion (journal)|Wave Motion]]''. He was honored with the [[National Medal of Science]] from President [[George W. Bush]] in 2005. He was elected a foreign member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Achenbach_Jan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Achenbach_Jan |title=Jan D. Achenbach |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Achenbach died on 22 August 2020 at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Emeritus Jan D. Achenbach Passes Away|publisher=McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University|url=https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2020/08/professor-emeritus-jan-d-achenbach-passes-away.html|last=Brian Sandalow|date=2020-08-25|language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Achenbach, Jan D.}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Academics from Illinois]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:Engineers from Illinois]] [[Category:Dutch engineers]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:People from Lee