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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/10094 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 DETAILS 326 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-07411-7 | DOI 10.17226/10094 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 i Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 ii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 iii NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Memorial Tributes Volume 9 NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 2001 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 iv International Standard Book Number 0–309–07411–8 International Standard Serial Number 1075–8844 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 20–1088636 Additional copies of this publication are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Box 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800– 624–6242 or 202–334–3313 (in the Washington Metropolitan Area) B-467 Copyright 2001 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS v CONTENTS FOREWORD xi GIOVANNI ASTARITA 3 by Arup K. Chakraborty, Guiseppe Marrucci, T.W. Fraser Rus- sell, and Arthur B. Metzner J. LELAND ATWOOD 7 by General B. A. Schriever, USAF (Retired) PHILIP BARKAN 13 by Thomas H. Lee MARCEL LOUIS J. BARRÉRE 19 by Stanford S. Penner ROBERT BROMBERG 23 by Peter Staudhammer G. EDWIN BURKS 29 by Phillip S. Myers PAUL F. CHENEA 33 by Charles Amann Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS vi JEROME B. COHEN 41 by Stephen H. Carr, Katherine Faber, Lyle H. Schwartz, and Julia Weertman NEVILLE G. W. COOK 47 by Douglas W. Fuerstenau and Richard E. Goodman WALLACE HENRY COULTER 55 by Michael R. Sfat SIDNEY DARLINGTON 59 by Irwin W. Sandberg and Ernest S. Kuh ROLF ELIASSEN 65 by Perry L. McCarty RICHARD S. ENGELBRECHT 71 by William J. Hall and Vernon L. Snoeyink MICHAEL FERENCE, JR. 77 by Julius J. Harwood DONALD GLEN FINK 83 Written by Donald Christiansen Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary JOHN C. GEYER 89 Written by John W. Knapp Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary MARTIN GOLAND 93 by Chauncey Starr JAMES P. GOULD 99 by Ralph B. Peck MEREDITH C. GOURDINE 105 by Allen F. Rhodes Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS vii ROBERT HERMAN 109 by R.S. Schechter EIVIND HOGNESTAD 119 by Ivan M. Viest JOE ESTES HOUSE 125 by R. Ray Beebe GEORGE J. HUEBNER 129 Written by James W. Furlong Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary LAWRENCE E. “LARRY” JENKINS 135 by Robert A. Fuhrman REYNOLD B. JOHNSON 139 by Arthur O. Anderson ROBERT T. JONES 145 by Walter G. Vincenti JERRY R. JUNKINS 151 by Mark Shepherd, Jr. ROBERT M. KENEDI 157 by Eugene F. Murphy JOHN R. KIELY 163 by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. KOJI KOBAYASHI 169 by Michiyuki Uenohara WALTER F. KOSONOCKY 175 by James E. Carnes Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS viii JAI KRISHNA 179 by George W. Housner ROLF LANDAUER 183 by Robert W. Keyes CLARENCE EDWARD LARSON 189 By Alvin M. Weinberg GERALD A. LEONARDS 193 by Milton E. Harr FRITZ LEONHARDT 199 by Ben Gerwick ARTHUR LUBINSKI 203 by Kenneth A. Blenkarn ROBERT E. MCINTOSH 207 by Merrill Skolnik DAVID PACKARD 211 by Joel Birnbaum EARL RANDALL PARKER 217 by Douglas Fuerstenau and Gareth Thomas DONALD WILLIAM PRITCHARD 223 by Robert O. Reid Other contributors to this tribute are William C. Boicourt, Charles R. O'Melia, Thelma A. Pritchard, and William J. Wiseman, Jr. WILBUR L. PRITCHARD 231 by Yvonne Brill and John F. Kelly EBERHARD F.M. REES 237 by Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS ix ERIC REISSNER 243 by Y. C. Fung, S. S. Penner, F. Seible and F. A. Williams RUDOLF SCHULTEN 247 by Wolf Häfele HENRY E. SINGLETON 251 by George A. Roberts RICHARD SKALAK 255 by Shu Chien GREGORY EUGENE STILLMAN 261 by Nick Holonyak, Jr. JAMES R. WAIT 267 by C. Gordon Little and Ernest K. Smith ROBERT H. WENTORF, JR. 273 by Robert C. DeVries HAROLD ALDEN WHEELER 279 by Sidney Metzger BASIL WRIGHT WILSON 287 by Thorndike Saville, Jr. Prepared with the assistance of others, particularly, Elizabeth Wil- son and Robert O. Reid CARLOS C. WOOD 293 by Willis M. Hawkins AARON WYNER 299 by David Slepian KONRAD ZUSE 305 by Manfred Schroeder Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 CONTENTS x APPENDIX 311 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHS 313 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 FOREWORD xi FOREWORD THIS IS THE NINTH VOLUME in the series of Memorial Tributes issued by the National Academy of Engineering to honor the deceased members and foreign associates of the Academy and to recognize their achievements. It is intended that these volumes will stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased members and foreign associates. The National Academy of Engineering is a private organization established in 1964 to share in the responsibility given the National Academy of Sciences under its congressional charter signed by President Lincoln in 1863 to examine and report on questions of science and engineering at the request of the federal government. Individuals are elected to the National Academy of Engineering on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. W. Dale Compton Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 FOREWORD xii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 1 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 2 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 GIOVANNI ASTARITA 3 GIOVANNI ASTARITA 1933-1997 BY ARUP K. CHAKRABORTY, GUISEPPEE MARRUCCI, T. W. FRASER FUSSELL, AND ARTHUR B. METZNER GIOVANNI ASTARITA, professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Naples, Italy, and professor of chemical engineering at University of Delaware for many years, died in Naples on April 28, 1997, following a stroke on April 24, 1997. He was sixty-three years old. Professor Astarita earned his master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and doctorate at the University of Naples in 1957. He was a visiting professor at Delaware during the 1965 to 1966 academic year and annually in the fall semesters continuously from 1973 through 1995: the fall semester of 1996 was spent at the Johns Hopkins University. He received the Alpha Chi Sigma award for research accomplishments from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1992 and was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994. At the time of his death, he was one of only eleven chemical engineers worldwide to hold this honor. In Italy he received, in 1995, the Gold Medal for Excellence in Research from the Federation of Chemical Industries. Professor Astarita's eight books and more than 200 papers revealed him to be a renaissance scholar as his work spanned the full range of rheological, continuum mechanics and chemical engineering interests. His first book was published in 1967 on the subject of mass transfer with chemical reaction; while it served to organize the literature on this subject impressively, it Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 GIOVANNI ASTARITA 4 was even more a philosophical tract on how rigorous analysis of all problems in science and technology should be approached. His insightful analyses of problems have allowed others to see the critical issues in new and frequently much clearer ways. He was a man of broad culture and wide reading who welcomed interruptions—any of us could enter his office at virtually any time to seek his guidance and advice. He would instantly stop his own work and turn to the new issue; the greater the erudition of the issue raised, the greater his enthusiasm for it. Consequently, he was an inspiring mentor for both his students and his colleagues. In the latter stages of his career, he focused on the mentoring of young academic professionals worldwide, the results of which will be with us for many years to come. Perhaps most important, his professional attributes exemplified respect for scholarship, scientific integrity, and the highest intellectual standards. In the applied physics areas of rheology and polymer processing, he contributed extensively to the early studies of the mechanisms whereby minute concentrations of macromolecules in flowing liquids reduce turbulence and the resulting drag.
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