Louis Landweber
Louis Landweber, was a leading ship hydrodynamicist, known for Landweber iteration.Education and career
Landweber received in 1932 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. After graduation, he became a physicist at the United States Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard. He received a master's degree in physics from George Washington University. Starting in 1940, he led a research group for mine-sweeping and other war-related activities. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and was promoted to the head of the hydrodynamics division of the David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland, before leaving for a professorship at the university of Iowa. There he was a research engineer at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research as well as a professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Iowa, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.
Upon his death he was survived by his wife, two sons, and four grandchildren. His elder son is the mathematician Peter Landweber and his younger son is the photographer Victor Landweber.Awards and honors
