Max Jakob
Max Jakob · Science & Medicine
Fluid mechanics
1879, Ludwigshafen, Germany — 1955, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Germany · United States
Max Jakob is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics
Jakob was a physicist and engineer who became one of the founders of modern heat-transfer science, building and directing pioneering laboratories in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid flow, and writing an authoritative treatise on the subject; the field's highest honor, the Max Jakob Memorial Award, is named for him. He was Jewish and fled Nazi persecution in 1936, emigrating to the United States, where he taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics
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Fluid mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics
