1. George Leitmann was born on May 24,1925 and is an Austrian-born American engineering scientist and educator.
14 Facts About George Leitmann
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George Leitmann's paternal grandfather was a career officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army.
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George Leitmann's father had been a volunteer in the Austrian Army in World War I and was wounded twice on the Serbian front.
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Nonetheless, by the spring of 1940 the situation in Austria had become so dangerous that George Leitmann's father fled to neighboring Yugoslavia, still an independent kingdom, and the rest of the family, George Leitmann, his mother and two grandmothers, were able to emigrate to the US in April 1940.
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Tragically, Yugoslavia was occupied by Germany a year later and George Leitmann's father was murdered in a concentration camp in Nis, Serbia.
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George Leitmann attended a Technical High School in New York from which he graduated in December 1943, whereupon he immediately volunteered for the Army and was inducted in February 1944 into a Combat Engineer Battalion, which began its combat duties in France and Germany in late 1944.
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George Leitmann joined the engineering faculty at UC Berkeley in 1957 as an assistant professor, and was advanced to associate professor in 1959 and professor in 1963.
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George Leitmann was emerited in 1991 and continued both research and university service until 2018.
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George Leitmann served the wider academic community by service on advisory boards at other universities.
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George Leitmann has held membership in many professional and government committees.
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George Leitmann was the Founding President of the American Alexander von Humboldt Association.
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George Leitmann is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign or Corresponding Member of six other national Academies of Science or Engineering.
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George Leitmann holds honorary doctorates from three universities.
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George Leitmann is a Commander of the German and Italian Orders of Merit.