Edwin N. Lightfoot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edwin N. Lightfoot

American chemical engineer

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1925

Place of Birth: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 02-Oct-2017

Profession: engineer, physicist, chemist, biologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edwin Niblock Lightfoot Jr.
(September 25, 1925 – October 2, 2017) was an American chemical engineer and Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is known for his research in transport phenomena, including biological mass-transfer processes, mass-transport reaction modeling, and separations processes.
He, along with R.
Byron Bird and Warren E.
Stewart, co-authored the classic textbook Transport Phenomena.
In 1974 Lightfoot wrote Transport Phenomena and Living Systems: Biomedical Aspects of Momentum and Mass Transport.
Lightfoot was the recipient of the 2004 National Medal of Science in Engineering Sciences.