Milton Plesset
Milton Plesset · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Rayleigh-Plesset equation for cavitation bubbles
1908, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — 1991, Pasadena, California, USA
United States
Milton Plesset is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Rayleigh-Plesset equation for cavitation bubbles
Milton Spinoza Plesset was an American applied physicist at Caltech who moved from quantum electrodynamics to fluid mechanics and nuclear reactor safety. His name lives in the Rayleigh-Plesset equation, the standard description of the growth and collapse of a cavitation bubble in a liquid. Jewish reference works list him among Jewish physicists.
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Physicist; the Rayleigh-Plesset equation for cavitation bubbles
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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