Milton S. Plesset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Milton S. Plesset

American physicist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1908

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1991

Profession: engineer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Milton Spinoza Plesset (7 February 1908 – 19 February 1991) was an American applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for his fundamental contributions to multiphase flows, bubble dynamics, and safety of nuclear reactors.
Plesset served as Professor of Engineering Science at California Institute of Technology during 1951 to 1978.
Notable scientists Andrea Prosperetti and Norman Zabusky finished their doctoral work under Plesset's guidance. He with Christian Møller are known for the Møller–Plesset perturbation theory. The Rayleigh-Plesset equation describing the dynamics of a bubble in an infinite body of fluid is also named after him.