Ray Clough

Anaheim CA 92850

Ray Clough is professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty for 38 years. His academic career began at the University of Washington, where he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1942. After graduation, he worked for the Boeing Airplane Company for a few months, then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. After receiving his master's degree in meteorology from Caltech in 1943, he was commissioned as a weather officer. He taught weather courses at Caltech and in a pilot training school in Georgia, then served with the USAAF Aviation Engineers in Florida and Okinawa until 1946. After his discharge, Clough began doctoral work at MIT, receiving his ScD degree in structural engineering in 1949. That same year, he accepted a faculty position at Berkeley, where he taught and conducted research until he was named emeritus in 1987. Clough received honorary doctor of science degrees from Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, in 1979, and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 1982. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1994.