Louis Landweber

Louis Landweber (8 January 1912, New York City – 19 January 1998, Iowa City, Iowa), was a leading ship hydrodynamicist, known for Landweber iteration.

Education and career Landweber received in 1932 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. After graduation, he became a physicist at the United States Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard. He received a master's degree in physics from George Washington University. Starting in 1940, he led a research group for mine-sweeping and other war-related activities. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and was promoted to the head of the hydrodynamics division of the David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland, before leaving for a professorship at the University of Iowa. There he was a research engineer at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research as well as a professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Iowa, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.

Awards and honors 1947 — U. S. Navy's Distinguished Meritorious Civilian Service Award 1978 — David W. Taylor Lecturer at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center 1978 — Davidson Medal from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 1979 — special conference organized in his honor, the Third Engineering Mechanics Division Specialty Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1980 — election to the National Academy of Engineers 1993 — Sixth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics held in his honor in Iowa City