A series of "microbiographies" for use by teachers and students of transport phenomena.
Author Biography
R. Byron Bird, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R. Byron Bird retired in 1992 after forty years of teaching-one year at Cornell and thirty-nine years at Wisconsin. The book Transport Phenomena, which he wrote with colleagues Warren Stewart and Ed Lightfoot, was the first textbook on the subject specifically prepared for undergraduate chemical engineering students. He also coauthored Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids with Bob Armstrong (MIT), Ole Hassager (DTU), and Chuck Curtiss (UW).
