Ali H. Nayfeh Scientist
Ali Hasan Nayfeh (born 21 December 1933 in the West Bank town of Shuwaikah / Tulkarm in Palestine) is the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. He received his B.S. on engineering science (1962) and his M.S. (1963) and PhD (1964) in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech since 1976. He is the Editor of Wiley Series in Nonlinear Science and editor in Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics. He was editor in chief of the Journal of Vibration and Control from 1995 until his retirement in May 2014 after an investigation uncovered a “peer review and citation ring” which resulted in the retraction of 60 papers from the journal He holds honorary doctorates from Marine Technical University, Russia, Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Politechnika Szczecinsksa, Poland.