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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Liviu Librescu, Henry H. Bauer, Kevin Granata, G. Wayne Clough, Nikki Giovanni, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, G. V. Loganathan, Marshall Fishwick, Terry H. Anderson, Scott Shipp, Jim A. Kuypers, Ishwar K. Puri, William R. Boggs, Markus Breitschmid, Hassan Aref, Melvin J. Hinich, Marc Edwards, Bob Hicok, Marjorie Grene, Lucinda Roy, Fred D'Aguiar, James I. Robertson, Jr., Karen L. Gould, Laura Sjoberg, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Timothy Luke, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Edward Falco, Harold Garner, Gerard Toal, Peter Wallenstein, David S. Wollan, Erika Meitner, James E. Martin, Frank Stack, William Floyd, Marco Frascari, Ali H. Nayfeh, Frank Quinn, Robert W. Rosenthal, William C. Davis, Roland Lazenby, Nicolaus Tideman, Gary Wamsley, Romesh Batra, Timothy Z. Keith, Charles Goodsell, Eric de Sturler, James Thorp, John Rohr, Arun G. Phadke. Excerpt: Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007; Hebrew: ) was a Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and academic professor whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. A prominent academic in addition to being a Holocaust survivor, he is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech massacre, in which he held off the gunman, giving all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Librescu was shot and killed during the attack. Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Romania's highest civilian honor. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Liviu Librescu was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in the city of Ploie ti, Romania. After Romania allied with Nazi Germany in World War II, his family was deported to a labor camp in Transnistria, and later, along with thousands of other Jews, was deported to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Foc ani. His wife, ...
