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P. Kumar Mehta is professor emeritus in the civil engineering department at the University of
California at Berkeley. A Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the American Concrete Institute,
he has received several awards, including ACI’s Wason Medal for materials research, the CANMET/
ACI award for outstanding contributions to research on performance of concrete in the marine
environment, and the Mohan Malhotra Award for research on supplementary cementing materials,
and ACI Construction Practice Award. He held the Roy Carlson Distinguished Professorship in Civil
Engineering at Berkeley, and, upon his retirement, he received the highest campus honour, the
Berkeley Citation, for exceptional contributions to his field and to the university.

Richard W. Burrows, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, began his studies of the durability of
concrete with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1946. He is a recipient of the 1958 Wason Metal, after
which he was Manager of Reliability for the Martin Marietta Space Division. He returned to the study of
concrete in 1994, after 15 years as a sculptor.

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