Obituaries Helmut Krawinkler, 72, Revered Seismic Engineer

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Helmut Krawinkler "lived and breathed" structural and earthquake engi- neering through teaching, research, analytic modeling, design and contributions to practice, says Gregory G. Deierlein, the John A. Blume professor of engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Krawinkler, an Austrian native who joined the Stanford faculty in 1973, died suddenly on April 16 in Los Altos, Calif., during treatment for a brain tumor. He was 72.