thesis_year death_date death_place birth_place thesis_title awards fields workplaces name birth_date article_title birth_name alma_mater
1966 23 december 2014 christchurch , new zealand wellington , new zealand moment redistribution in prestressed concrete continuous beams ipenz c. reese award -lrb- 1983 , 1989 -rrb- fib freyssinet fulton medal -lrb- 2010 -rrb- onzm -lrb- 2014 -rrb- gold medal -lrb- 1973 -rrb- aci raymond earthquake engineering ministry of california , san diego rose school , pavia of works and development university of canterbury university nigel priestley 21 july 1943 nigel priestley
 michael john nigel priestley university of canterbury
nigel priestley

michael john nigel priestley -lrb- 21 july 1943 -- 23 december 2014 -rrb- was a new zealand earthquake engineer .
he made significant contributions to the design and retrofit of concrete structures , and developed the first displacement-based method of seismic design .
