Charles Francis Curtiss

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Charles Francis Curtiss (born April 4, 1921 in Chicago , † December 24, 2007 in Madison (Wisconsin) ) was an American chemist (theoretical and physical chemistry).

Curtiss graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in 1942. During World War II, he worked as a chemist at the Carnegie Institution's geophysics laboratory in Washington DC and at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Maryland. In 1946 he was back at the University of Wisconsin, where he in 1948 Joseph O. Hirschfelder with the theme The equilibrium assumption in the theory of absolute reaction rates doctorate was. In 1949 he became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, an associate professor in 1954 and a professor in 1960. In 1989 he retired.

Curtiss dealt with kinetic gas theory, transport phenomena in dense and polyatomic gases, statistical mechanics of the non-equilibrium of reacting gas mixtures, theory of molecular collisions and rheology of polymer solutions and melts. He is co-author of several standard works in physical chemistry.

He is known for an article from 1952 in the Proceedings of the National Academy with Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder , in which they introduced the BDF method , a multi-step method for solving rigid differential equation systems.

In 1987 he received the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology and in 1994 the AC Eringen Medal . He was a fellow of the American Physical Society . Curtiss has served as co-editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics on several occasions .

Fonts

  • with Hirschfelder, R. Byron Bird Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids , Wiley 1954, 1964
  • with RB Bird: Fascinating Polymeric Liquids , Physics Today, Volume 37, 1984, p. 36
  • with RB Bird, RC Armstrong, O. Hassager: Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids , Volume 2 Kinetic Theory , Wiley 1977, 1987
  • Intermolecular Contributions to the Stress Tensor of Polymeric Systems, J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 95, 1991, p. 1345
  • The Time Evolution of the Pair Distribution Function of Polymeric Systems, Theor. Chim. Acta, Vol. 82, 1992, p. 75
  • with Hirschfelder Integration of stiff equations , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 38, 1952, 235-243.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Charles F. Curtiss at academictree.org, accessed on 28 January 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Curtiss, Charles Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2007
Place of death Madison (Wisconsin)