Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007;) was a Romanian born and educated Israeli-American scientist and academic whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. His last academic position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Wikipedia
A former colleague of Professor Liviu Librescu remembers the life of a friend whose life ended during the Virginia Tech massacre. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6579077.stm
823-841, 2006 Na, S. S., Librescu, L., Rim, S. N. and Yoon, G. C., Vibration and Dynamic Response Control of Non-Unifom Composite Rotating Blades , International Journal of Rotating Machinery , 2006, ID 13807, pp. www.esm.vt.edu/php/person.php?id=10023
The last person to see Professor Liviu Librescu alive appears to have been Alec Calhoun, a student at Virginia Tech who turned as he prepared to leap from a high classroom window to see the elderly academic holding shut the classroom door. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article...
Librescu Family Condolence Page You are surely aware of the tragic shooting that occurred at the Virginia Tech campus. www.chabad.edu/templates/articlecco.html?AID=504498
No one knows what drove Liviu Librescu, four months short of his 77th birthday, to martyr himself to the cause of education. onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2062.shtml
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Liviu Librescu. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu
