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Frank Kreith

(15 December 1922 – 8 January 2018)

was an American mechanical engineer.

Born in

, Kreith fled

after the

into

in 1938 as a member of the

He obtained degrees from the

(1945), the

(1949) and the

(1965).

Kreith worked at the

received a fellowship from the

to study at

and taught

at Berkeley and

before becoming a faculty member at

in 1959. He was

head of the Solar Thermal Conversion research branch at the

(SERI) and subsequently

served as the ASME Legislative Fellow at the

, advising lawmakers on energy

and environmental issues.

Kreith published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored or edited

15 books (among them the seminal textbook

Principles of Heat Transfer

and was the

's editor-in-chief from 1980 to 1987.

Honors and awards

[

]

1981 Worcester Reed Warner Medal,

(ASME)

1985

, ASME and

(AIChE)

1988 Charles Greeley Abbot Award,

(ASES)

1992 Ralph Coats Roe Medal, ASME

1997

1998

2001

, ASME

since 2006 Namesake of the Frank Kreith Energy Award, ASME

2017

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, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

, University of Colorado Boulder.

, Daily Camera.

, 29 May 1949, pp.5–6.

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