Howard Brenner
Howard Brenner (born March 16, 1929 in New York City , † February 17, 2014 ) was an American chemical engineer who dealt with hydrodynamics .
Life
Brenner earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Pratt Institute in 1950 and his master's degree from New York University in 1954 , where he received his doctorate in 1957. He stayed there as an instructor until he went to Carnegie Mellon University as a professor in 1966 . Since 1981 he has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( William Henry Dow Professor ).
Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Minnesota , Caltech ( Fairchild Scholar 1975/76, Chevron Visiting Professor 1988/89), Technion ( Lady Day Professor 1996), the University of Rochester , the University of California, San Diego , at Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon. He dealt with microfluidics, complex liquids with low Reynolds number, transport processes in hydrodynamics, theory of chromatography, aerosols, aspects of physical chemistry and thermodynamics in hydrodynamics.
He received the Kendall Award in 1988, the American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Award in 2001 , the Bingham Medal in 1980 and the Warren K. Lewis Award in 1999. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering (1980). In 1988 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .
Fonts
- with DA Edwards: Macrotransport Processes, Butterworth-Heinemann 1993
- with DA Edwards, DT Wasan Interfacial Transport Processes and Rheology , Butterworth-Heinemann 1991
- with J. Happel: Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics , Prentice-Hall 1965, Kluwer 1983
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| SURNAME | Brenner, Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 2014 |