Eli Ruckenstein

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Eli Ruckenstein (born August 13, 1925 in Botoșani , Romania ) is an American chemical engineer .

Ruckenstein received his diploma in 1949 at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest , where he was professor of chemical engineering until 1969. He was then at Clarkson College of Technology and from 1970 professor at the University of Delaware and 1973 at the State University of New York in Buffalo.

He was visiting professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of London, the Catholic University of Leuven, the ETH Zurich and at the Technion.

Ruckenstein is known for research on the technical chemistry of colloids, emulsions and interfaces, in the field of thermodynamics of microemulsions, hydrodynamics of thin films, catalysts and scaling of transport phenomena, but also worked on a large number of other areas.

He has published over 1,000 papers and holds ten US patents.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), whose Founders Award he received, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998 . In 1985 he received the Humboldt Research Award , with which he was at the University of Bayreuth . He holds honorary doctorates from the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest and the Technical University in Bucharest. He received the Kendall Award and Murphree Award from ACS and the Walker Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers .

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  • with I. Shulgin: Thermodynamics of Solutions: From Gases to Pharmaceutics to Proteins , Springer Verlag 2009.
  • with M. Manciu: Nanodispersions: Interactions, Stability and Dynamics , Springer Verlag 2009

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Ruckenstein, Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoșani , Romania