Robert Byron Bird
1924
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2020
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Maryland
occupation: chemist, engineer, physicist, traffic researcher
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. He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, was an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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