Liviu Librescu
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title:
Liviu Librescu
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Liviu Librescu was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star
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Romanian-Israeli-American scientist, Holocaust survivor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu
date created:
2007-04-17T08:38:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T02:48:32Z
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