Andreas Acrivos

Andreas Acrivos ( born June 13, 1928 in Athens ) is a Greek- American engineer scientist and chemical engineer who deals with hydrodynamics.

Acrivos went to education in the United States and earned his bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1950 and his master's degree at the University of Minnesota, where he in 1954 received his doctorate in chemical engineering. After that, he was Assistant Professor and from 1959 Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1962 professor at Stanford University, where he retired in 2000. In 1988 he was Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at City College of the City University of New York as successor to Benjamin Levich. He is there at the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico - Chemical Hydrodynamics.

He received the 2001 National Medal of Science, 1984 Warren K. Lewis Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1994, the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology, 1988, the GI Taylor Medal and the 1999 Award of Excellence in Science and Engineering of the New York mayor and 1991 the hydrodynamics prize of the American Physical Society. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993 ), the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1977). 1959 and 1976 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens. He is seven honorary doctorates.

His doctoral Gary Leal heard.

Writings

• Publisher: Modern Chemical Engineering: Physical Operations, New York: Reinhold 1963