Frank Kreith

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Frank Kreith (born December 15, 1922 in Vienna as Franz Kreith ; died January 8, 2018 ) was an American mechanical and energy engineer of Austrian origin.

Life

Kreith attended the Döblinger Gymnasium in Vienna until he was banned from school by the National Socialists as a result of the annexation of Austria in 1938. He and his younger sister first fled to Great Britain on a Kindertransport . When the rest of the family emigrated to the United States , he and his sister followed suit. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in mechanical engineering , Frank Kreith worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology . In 1949 he earned a master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles . Funded by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation , he worked briefly at Princeton University . Kreith then taught at Berkeley and at Lehigh University , before coming to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1959 , where, apart from visiting professorships, he worked for almost 20 years. In 1965 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris . This was followed by positions at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ) and as a consultant at the National Conference of State Legislatures , a non-governmental organization . He later taught again in Boulder.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Kreith the Worcester Reed Warner Medal in 1981 , the Ralph Coats Roe Medal in 1992 , the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2001 and its highest award in 1998, the ASME Medal , and has been awarding the Frank Kreith Energy since 2006 Award . He also received the Max Jakob Memorial Award from ASME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 1985 , the Charles Greeley Abbot Award from the American Solar Energy Society in 1988 , the Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers in 1997 and the John Fritz in 2017 Medal from the American Association of Engineering Societies . Kreith died in early 2018 at the age of 95, leaving behind his wife and three children.

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Kreith wrote over 100 essays and was the author or editor of 15 books, including the textbook Principles of Heat Transfer , which was published in eight editions . He was also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering from 1980 to 1987 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Principles of Heat Transfer . International Textbook Company, Scranton 1958.
  • Frank Kreith u. Jan F. Kreider: Principles of Solar Engineering . Hemisphere Publication Corporation et al. a., Washington, DC et al. a. 1978, ISBN 0-07-035476-6 .
  • Jan F. Kreider et al. Frank Kreith (Ed.): Solar Energy Handbook . McGraw-Hill, New York et al. a. 1981, ISBN 0-07-035474-X .
  • Handbook of Solid Waste Management . McGraw-Hill, New York et al. a. 1994, ISBN 0-07-035876-1 .
  • Frank Kreith (Ed.): The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering . CRC Press et al. a., Boca Raton 2000, ISBN 3-540-66349-5 .
  • Frank Kreith u. D. Yogi Goswami (Ed.): Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy . CRC Press et al. a., Boca Raton 2007, ISBN 978-0-8493-1730-9 .
  • Sunrise Delayed: A Personal History of Solar Energy . CreateSpace , 2014, ISBN 978-1-5001-2487-8 (autobiography).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituaries. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Highest award for Frank Kreith. Döblinger Gymnasium, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d In Memorium: Professor Frank Kreith. Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Charlie Brennan: Boulder scientist Frank Kreith lands top engineering honor. In: Daily Camera. December 23, 2016, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ D. Yogi Goswami et al. Aldo Steinfeld: Guest Editorial: Special Issue Honoring Professor Frank Kreith . In: Journal of Solar Energy Engineering . tape 136 , no. 1 , 2014, doi : 10.1115 / 1.4026260 .
  6. ↑ Jefferson Dodge: CU prof: Don't buy the promise of nuclear energy. In: Boulder Weekly. December 26, 2013, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Elizabeth Hernandez: Frank Kreith, Boulder engineer, fled Holocaust to live out accomplished, celebrated life. In: Daily Camera. January 16, 2018, accessed January 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreith, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreith, Franz (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mechanical and energy engineer of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2018