Robert Byron Bird
Robert Byron Bird , called Byron Bird and quoted R. Byron Bird, (born February 5, 1924 in Bryan, Texas ) is an American chemical engineer and chemist ( physical chemistry ). He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .
Life
Bird studied at the University of Maryland and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1947. The studies were interrupted by military service in World War II. In 1950 he received his doctorate in physical chemistry under Joseph O. Hirschfelder at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ( Intermolecular forces and the virial equation of state ). As a post-doctoral student , he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Amsterdam in 1950/51 .
He was visiting professor at the TU Delft (1958, 1994 as the first JM Burgers professor), at the Catholic University of Leuven (1994) and 1962/63 as a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto and Nagoya University . From 1953 he was at the University of Wisconsin , from 1955 as an assistant professor and from 1957 as a professor of chemical engineering. In 1992 he retired.
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He dealt with transport theory of non-Newtonian liquids , especially polymer solutions , with polymer kinetics (fundamentals including heat and mass flow and extended Maxwell-Stefan equations for multi-component diffusion in polymer liquids with Charles F. Curtiss, later development of constitutive equations) and Rheology . He is known for various textbooks, including a book on transportation theory that became a bestseller and has also been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Czech, and Portuguese.
Honors and memberships
- 1969: Admission to the National Academy of Engineering
- 1970: Admission to the American Physical Society
- 1974: WK Lewis Award and William H. Walker Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- 1974: Bingham Medal
- 1980: Otto Laporte Prize
- 1981: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1983: AC Eringen Medal
- 1983: Admission to the American Academy of Mechanics
- 1985: Admission to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 1987: National Medal of Science
- 1989: Admission to the National Academy of Sciences
- 2004: Order of Orange-Nassau (Knight)
- 2008: Induction into the Alpha Chi Sigma Hall of Fame at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Bird has multiple honorary doctorates ( Kyoto , ETH Zurich , Technion , Delft , Clarkson College , Lehigh University , Washington University , Colorado School of Mines ).
Fonts
- with Joseph O. Hirschfelder , Charles F. Curtiss : The molecular theory of gases and liquids, Wiley 1954, 1964
- with WE Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot: Transport Phenomena, Wiley 1960, 2002, 2007
- with Curtiss: Fascinating Polymeric Liquids, Physics Today, Volume 37, 1984, p. 36
- with RC Armstrong, O. Hassager: Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 1 (Fluid Dynamics), Volume 2 (Kinetic Theory), Wiley 1977, 1987 (Volume 2 with Charles F. Curtiss)
- with HC Oettinger: Transport Properties of Polymeric Liquids , Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., Vol. 43, 1992, pp. 371-406
- with JM Wiest: Constitutive Equations for Polymeric Liquids , Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 27, 1995, pp. 169-193
- with CF Curtiss, RC Armstrong, O. Hassager: Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior , in Comprehensive Polymer Science, Volume 2, Pergamon Press 1989, Chapter 8
- with CF Curtiss: Statistical Mechanics and Transport Phenomena: Polymeric Liquid Mixtures , in: Advances In Polymer Physics 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of R. Byron Bird at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bird, Robert Byron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bird, Robert B .; Bird, RB; Bird, R. Byron; Bird, Bob; Byron Bird, R .; Byron Bird, Robert; Berd, R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bryan (Texas) |