Eli Ruckenstein

Eli Ruckenstein ( born August 13, 1925 in Botosani, Romania) is an American chemical engineer.

Ruckenstein 1949 received his graduate degree at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, where he was a professor of chemical engineering until 1969. Then he was at Clarkson College of Technology, and from 1970 professor at the University of Delaware and 1973 at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He was a visiting professor at Carnegie- Mellon University, the University of London, the Catholic University of Leuven, the ETH Zurich and at the Technion.

Ruckenstein is known for research on technical chemistry of colloids, emulsions and interfaces, thin in the field of thermodynamics of microemulsions, hydrodynamics films, catalysts, and scaling of transport phenomena, but also worked on a variety of other areas.

He has published over 1,000 works and holds ten U.S. patents.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering ( NAE ), the Founders Award he received, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the 1998 National Medal of Science. In 1985 he received the Humboldt Research Award, with which he was at the University of Bayreuth. He holds honorary doctorates from the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest and the Technical University of Bucharest. He received the Kendall Award and Murphree Award of the ACS and the Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Writings

• With I. Shulgin: Thermodynamics of Solutions: From gas to Pharmaceutics to protein, Springer Verlag, 2009.
• With M. Manciu: Nano Dispersions: Interactions, Stability and Dynamics, Springer Verlag 2009