Willibald Trinks

Charles Leopold Willibald Trinks (10 December 1874 in Berlin – 24 May 1966 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) was a German scientist who emigrated to Pennsylvania soon after getting his degree from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottnburg (now Technische Universität Berlin).

Working as an engineer in different US companies he became the world authority in industrial furnaces.

Then after working in Germany for two years he emigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States.

[1] He had three marriages: Maud Alice Moore, whom he married in 1902 in Allegheny County.

Professor Trinks was one of the first appointments of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he headed the Department of Mechanical Engineering for 38 years.

The obverse of the award medal introduced in 1856 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, that was won by Trinks
The reverse of that medal carrying the name W. Trinks as a prize for his outstanding graduation in engineering