Howard Reiss
Howard Reiss (born April 5, 1922 in New York City , † December 21, 2015 in King City , California ) was an American physical chemist .
Life
Howard Reiss studied at New York University and Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1949 under Victor LaMer with a thesis on nucleation and the growth of monodisperse aerosols and hydrosols. His academic training was interrupted by the Second World War. He was a member of the US Army Special Engineer Detachment. In this special unit he worked in Oak Ridge as part of the Manhattan Project . After the end of the war, he worked at Columbia University from 1946 and at Boston University from 1949 . From 1951 to 1960 he worked at Bell Laboratories and then until 1968 in senior research positions at North American Aviation . In 1968 he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
Reiss worked both theoretically and experimentally in a variety of areas of physics and physical chemistry: statistical mechanics , solid state physics and chemistry , electrochemistry , thermodynamics , polymer research, nucleation , colloid chemistry, and device development .
In 1977 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Guggenheim Fellow . The American Chemical Society awarded him the Tolman Award (1973), the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry (1980) and the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award (1991).
He died in a traffic accident on December 21, 2015 at the age of 93.
Fonts (selection)
- Howard Reiss: Methods of Thermodynamics . Blaisdell, New York 1965, ISBN 978-0-486-69445-0 .
- Howard Reiss: Scaled Particle Methods in the Statistical Thermodynamics of Fluids . In: Ilya Prigogine (Ed.): Advances in Chemical Physics . tape 9 . John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 1965, doi : 10.1002 / 9780470143551.ch1 .
literature
- Biography of Howard Reiss . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry . tape 105 , no. 47 , 2001, p. 11533-11536 , doi : 10.1021 / jp013462n .
- In memoriam: Professor emeritus Howard Reiss. UCLA Newsroom. University of California, January 4, 2016, accessed October 31, 2017 .
Web links
- Live data, publications and Academic pedigree of Howard Reiss at academictree.org, accessed on 22 April 2018th
Individual evidence
- ^ Member Directory: Howard Reiss. National Academy of Sciences, accessed October 31, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiss, Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 2015 |
| Place of death | King City (California) |