Howard Birnbaum
Howard Birnbaum · Science & Medicine
Materials scientist known for hydrogen effects in metals
1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA — 2005
United States
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Howard K. Birnbaum was an American materials scientist at the University of Illinois whose research clarified how dissolved hydrogen embrittles metals; he developed the hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity (HELP) mechanism that is now a leading explanation of hydrogen embrittlement. He directed Illinois's Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. He is identified as Jewish in Jewish biographical references.
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Materials scientist known for hydrogen effects in metals
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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