Dr Richard L Weaver

Professor

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Background

Professor Richard Weaver received an A.B. degree in physics from Washington University in St Louis in 1971 and a Ph.D in astrophysics from Cornell University in 1977.  He came to Illinois in 1981 after a research associateship in theoretical elastic wave propagation and ultrasonics at Cornell.   He was elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1996 and received the Hetényi Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2004.  He is associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.  Formerly a professor in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Illinois, he joined the Department of Physics in 2006.