Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe (8 March 1942 – 28 September 2022) was a Venezuelan hydrologist who was a professor at Texas A&M University.[1]

Rodríguez Iturbe was born in Maracaibo, Zulia State in 1942. He graduated from the University of Zulia as a civil engineer and did graduate studies at Caltech, earning his PhD at Colorado State University in 1967.

Rodríguez Iturbe taught at many universities, including the University of Zulia, MIT, Texas A&M, Princeton University[2] and the University of Iowa. He also taught for 20 years at Simon Bolivar University.

Rodríguez Iturbe was a member of the US National Committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis from 2004. In 2008, he received a special recognition from the World Cultural Council.[3]

Rodríguez Iturbe died on 28 September 2022, at the age of 80.[4]

Honors

References

  1. ↑ Simon A. Levin, Andrea Rinaldo: Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (1942−2022): A review of a pathbreaking academic career combining chance and self-organization. PNAS. Vol. 119 (49), 2022, e2217606119, doi:10.1073/pnas.2217606119.
  2. ↑ Durkee, Robert K. (5 April 2022). The New Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-21044-5. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Special Recognitions 2008". World Cultural Council. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "La scomparsa di Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe". DICEA. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water".
  6. ↑ "Rodriguez-Iturbe elected to the National Academy of Sciences".
  7. ↑ "Pope taps Princeton water expert, believer in global warming for science academy | National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe". ncrcafe.org. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.


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