Andreas Acrivos

Andreas Acrivos (born June 13, 1928 in Athens ) is a Greek - American engineer and chemical engineer who deals with hydrodynamics .

Life

Acrivos went to training in the United States, where he received his bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1950 and his master's degree from the University of Minnesota , where he received his PhD in chemical engineering in 1954. He was then assistant professor and from 1959 associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1962 professor at Stanford University , where he retired in 2000. In 1988 he became Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at City College of the City University of New York as successor to Benjamin Levich . He is there at the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics .

He received the National Medal of Science in 2001 , the Warren K. Lewis Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1984 , the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology in 1994 , the GI Taylor Medal in 1988 , and the New Yorker's Award of Excellence in Science and Engineering in 1999 Mayor's and the 1991 American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Award . He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), the American Physical Society , the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineering (1977). In 1959 and 1976 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2011 he became a corresponding member of the Athens Academy. He is a seven-time honorary doctor.

Gary Leal is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• Published by: Modern Chemical Engineering: Physical Operations , New York: Reinhold 1963

Web links

• Homepage at CUNY

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Title of the dissertation from Neal R. Amundson: A Theoretical Discussion of Steady and Unsteady State Multicomponent Rectification Including a Treatment of Mixtures with an Indefinite Number of Components