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website: http://www.olemiss.edu/sciencenet/poronet/piobiot.html
Maurice Anthony Biot (May 25, 1905 – September 12, 1985) was a Belgian-American physicist and the founder of the theory of poroelasticity.
Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Biot studied at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium where he received a bachelor's degrees in philosophy (1927), mining engineering (1929) and electrical engineering (1930), and Doctor of Science in 1931. He obtained his Ph.D. in Aeronautical Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1932.
In 1930s and 1940s Biot worked at Harvard University, the Catholic University of Leuven, Columbia University and Brown University, and later for a number of companies and government agencies. During the period between 1932 and 1942, he conceived and then fully developed the response spectrum method (RSM) for earthquake engineering which was further promoted by George W Housner.
In the period between 1935 and 1962 Biot published a number of scientific papers that lay the foundations of the theory of poroelasticity (now known as Biot theory), which describes the mechanical behaviour of fluid-saturated porous media. He also made a number of important contributions in areas of aerodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics and heat transfer, viscoelasticity and thermoelasticity, among others.
Biot is a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal (1962) and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the same year.
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Biot was awarded Honorary Fellowship in the Acoustical Society of America in 1983.
In 2003 the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers established the Biot Medal inscribed as follows:
"“PRESENTED TO/ _____________/ AWARD ESTABLISHED/ BY THE/ ENGINEERING MECHANICS/ DIVISION FOR/ OUTSTANIDNG ACHIEVEMENTS/ IN THE/ FIELD OF MECHANICS OF/ POROUS MATERIALS/ <year>/American Society/ of Civil Engineers"
The following is from:
http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/about/history
California Institute of Technology Department of Aerospace GALCIT history GALCIT = Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology
Maurice Biot (1905–1985) (PhD 1932; student of von Kármán) Biot earned the first PhD awarded by GALCIT. He would become well known in solid mechanics, large deformation continuum mechanics (geology), thermodynamics of solids, and dynamics applied to earthquake engineering. He was a research associate and technical adviser to the National Defense Research Committee at Caltech, 1940–43. Biot wrote three books, including a textbook on applied mathematics co-authored with von Kármán, as well as more than 178 scientific and engineering papers on various topics including elasticity theory, thermodynamics, applied mathematics, soil mechanics, wave propagation and scatter, wing flutter, geophysics, and seismology.
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