Robert Byron Bird
Robert Byron Bird, called Byron Bird, citing 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 at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where in 1947 he earned a Bachelor's degree. The study was interrupted by military service in World War II. In 1950 he received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin -Madison in Physical Chemistry at Joseph O. Hirschfelder. As a post - graduate student, he was 1950/51 as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.
He was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Delft (1958, 1994 as the first JM Burgers Professor ) at the Catholic University of Leuven (1994) and 1962/63 as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Kyoto and Nagoya. From 1953 he was at the University of Wisconsin, in 1955 as an associate professor and from 1957 as a professor of chemical engineering. He retired in 1992.
Work
He dealt with transport theory of non- Newtonian fluids, especially polymer solutions with Polymerkinetik (basics, including heat and mass flow and extended Maxwell-Stefan equations for multicomponent diffusion in polymer liquids with Charles F. Curtiss, later development of constitutive equations) and rheology. He is known for several textbooks, including a book on transport theory, which became a bestseller and was translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Czech and Portuguese.
Honors and Memberships
In 1974 he received the Bingham Medal, 1980 Otto Laporte Award, 1974 WK Lewis Award and William H. Walker Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the AC Eringen Medal in 1983. In 1987 he received the National Medal of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989 ) and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1969), the Royal Netherlands and Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 1970), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bird is much honorary doctorates ( Kyoto, ETH Zurich, Technion, Delft, Clarkson College, Lehigh University, Washington University, Colorado School of Mines ).
Writings
- 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
- RC Armstrong, O. Hassager: Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 1 ( Fluid Dynamics), Volume 2 ( Kinetic Theory), Wiley 1977, 1987 ( Volume 2 by Charles F. Curtiss )
- With HC Oettinger: Transport Properties of Polymeric Liquids, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem, Volume 43, 1992, pp. 371-406
- With JM Wiest: Constitutive Equations for Polymeric Liquids, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech, Volume 27, 1995, p.169 -193
- With CF Curtiss, RC Armstrong, O. Hassager: Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior, in Comprehensive Polymer Science, Vol 2, Pergamon Press, 1989, Chapter 8
- CF Curtiss: Statistical Mechanics and Transport Phenomena: Polymeric Liquid Mixtures, in: Advances in Polymer Physics 1996