obit - POPOV, Egor (1913-2001
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obit - POPOV, Egor (1913-2001
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Posted: 23 Jun 2006 4:45PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Popov, Pister, Flippou, Crabtree
From the Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, April 25, 2001, Local section, page 8:
“Services today for civil engineering professor Egor Popov
From Staff Reports
BERKELEY – Funeral services will be held at 1- this morning for Egor Popov, a retired University of California, Berkeley, civil engineering professor, who was renown in his profession.
The professor’s earthquake research was used in construction of the Bay Bridge, the trans-Alaska pipeline and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Professor Popov died April 19 at Summit Alta Bates Medical Center following a heart attack. He was 88.
Services will be held at St. John’s Russian Orthodox Church, 1900 Essex St., Berkeley.
Colleagues and former students said Professor Popov conducted pioneering studies of reinforced concrete and steel used in buildings, which showed both materials became rigid and were likely to collapse or fracture under the tremendous stresses of a large earthquake.
He wrote textbooks that became engineering classics and were used in universities around the world.
Professor emeritus Karl S. Pister, former dean of Berkeley’s College of Engineering and former chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, said Professor Popov was a giant in his field.
“I met Egor when I was a graduate student in 1946. His courses and counsel inspired me to go on for my (doctorate), Pister said.
“If we removed Egor Popov’s constructions from the seismic design of steel structures, we would lose most of the innovations of the last 30 years,†said UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Filip Flippou.
Professor Popov was born in Kiev, the Ukraine in 1913. He fled with his family to Manchuria during the Bolshevik Revolution. He earned a civil engineering degree at UC Berkeley in 1946. He joined the Berkeley faculty the same year and later was the first chair of Berkeley’s Structural Engineering Laboratories.
He retired in 1983 and held the title of professor in the Graduate School.
Professor Popov is survived by son, Alexander Popov of Carbondale, Illinois; daughter Katherine Crabtree of Medford, Oregon; brother Nicholas of Santa Rosa; and six grandchildren.
The family prefers donations to the American Heart Association or a charity of choice.â€
“Services today for civil engineering professor Egor Popov
From Staff Reports
BERKELEY – Funeral services will be held at 1- this morning for Egor Popov, a retired University of California, Berkeley, civil engineering professor, who was renown in his profession.
The professor’s earthquake research was used in construction of the Bay Bridge, the trans-Alaska pipeline and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Professor Popov died April 19 at Summit Alta Bates Medical Center following a heart attack. He was 88.
Services will be held at St. John’s Russian Orthodox Church, 1900 Essex St., Berkeley.
Colleagues and former students said Professor Popov conducted pioneering studies of reinforced concrete and steel used in buildings, which showed both materials became rigid and were likely to collapse or fracture under the tremendous stresses of a large earthquake.
He wrote textbooks that became engineering classics and were used in universities around the world.
Professor emeritus Karl S. Pister, former dean of Berkeley’s College of Engineering and former chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, said Professor Popov was a giant in his field.
“I met Egor when I was a graduate student in 1946. His courses and counsel inspired me to go on for my (doctorate), Pister said.
“If we removed Egor Popov’s constructions from the seismic design of steel structures, we would lose most of the innovations of the last 30 years,†said UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Filip Flippou.
Professor Popov was born in Kiev, the Ukraine in 1913. He fled with his family to Manchuria during the Bolshevik Revolution. He earned a civil engineering degree at UC Berkeley in 1946. He joined the Berkeley faculty the same year and later was the first chair of Berkeley’s Structural Engineering Laboratories.
He retired in 1983 and held the title of professor in the Graduate School.
Professor Popov is survived by son, Alexander Popov of Carbondale, Illinois; daughter Katherine Crabtree of Medford, Oregon; brother Nicholas of Santa Rosa; and six grandchildren.
The family prefers donations to the American Heart Association or a charity of choice.â€