About

Helmut Kobus was born on May 17, 1937, in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduation as a civil engineer from the Technical University in Stuttgart in 1961, he moved for four years to the Institute of Hydraulic Research of the State University of Iowa, USA to submit in 1965 his PhD thesis. There he also translated two books from the Bernoulli family from Latin into English. In 1966, Kobus returned as a post-doc to the Technical University of Berlin and from 1968 headed the hydraulics laboratory of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, where he submitted his habilitation thesis in 1973. In 1977 Kobus was appointed professor of technical hydromechanics at Stuttgart Technical University, a position he held for the following 25 years until retirement. During these years, Kobus was interested in the numerical simulation of groundwater and heat flows, in water pollution and its hydrodynamic description, after having contributed to the characteristics of air-water high-speed flows in the mid 1970s. Kobus was an IAHR Council Member from 1988, was then an IAHR vicepresident from 1991 to 1995 and elected IAHR president during the 1995 IAHR London Congress. His particular impact on IAHR was the combination of education and research and as promoter of IAHR student chapters which are becoming widely spread. Kobus also worked towards a greater emphasis on hydraulic engineering practice within the IAHR organization. This led to the establishment of new technical H O L L Y Forrest M. Holly Jr. was born on April 1, 1946 in La Jolla CA USA. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968, received an MS from the University of Washington one year later and the PhD title in 1975 from Colorado State University. Holly then moved for five years to SOGREAH Grenoble in France, where he developed mathematical models for application to various hydrodynamic phenomena and co-authored a text on Computational hydraulics. Holly was appointed hydraulics professor at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research IIHR in 1982 and still lives in Iowa City, USA. Though he enjoyed teaching and interacting with students, he never saw himself as a career-long academic, because he found the practice of engineering to be so gratifying. Holly thus retired from IIHR in 2003 to concentrate on his own consulting company H&A Associates. He is an antique clock repairman, and a flight instructor certified for private and commercial flights and instrument instruction. He is presently also translating a historical hydraulics book from French to English, among a number of other professional commitments. 1995 - 1999 1999 - 2003 IAHR sections and to an amplification of the associations official name to ‘International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research’ IAHR. Kobus was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1995 and in 2002 from the Technical University of Karlsruhe; in 1996 he received an Honorary Professorship from the Sichuan Union University in Chengdu, China. Kobus stepped down as IAHR president during the 1999 Graz IAHR Congress. He actually lives in Stuttgart, Germany.

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