Alan Needleman

Alan Needleman
Alan Needleman
Alma mater	Harvard University
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (applied mathematics, 1977); Timoshenko Medal (University of North Texas, 2011); Drucker Medal (2006); William Prager Medal (2006); honorary doctor of the École normale supérieure de Cachan (2006) ;
	Academic career
Institutions	Brown University (1996–2009); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of North Texas ;
Doctoral advisor	John W. Hutchinson
Doctoral students	Nicolas Triantafyllidis

Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.