Robert Byron Bird
American chemical engineer (1924–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Byron Bird (February 5, 1924 – November 13, 2020) was an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was known for his research in transport phenomena of non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory, and rheology.[2] He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, was an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena.[3] Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987.[4]
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Born | (1924-02-05)February 5, 1924[1] Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
Died | November 13, 2020(2020-11-13) (aged 96) |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin (PhD, 1950) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS, 1947) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Transport phenomena, Non-Newtonian fluids, Rheology, Polymers |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Thesis | Intermolecular forces and the virial equation of state (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph O. Hirschfelder |
Doctoral students | Arnold Fredrickson Pierre Carreau Robert C. Armstrong |
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