Joseph Kestin
Joseph Kestin · Science & Medicine
Continuum mechanics
1913, Warsaw, Poland — 1993, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Poland · United Kingdom · United States
Joseph Kestin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
Joseph Kestin was a thermodynamicist and Brown University professor renowned for authoritative work on the transport properties of fluids and for his two-volume treatise A Course in Thermodynamics. Born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, he fled to Britain and later the United States; his Jewish identity is documented.
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Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
