Howard Kent Birnbaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Howard Kent Birnbaum

American metallurgist

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1932

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2005

Profession: engineer, metallurgist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Howard Kent Birnbaum (18 October 1932 Brooklyn, New York – 23 January 2005 Urbana, Illinois) was an American metallurgist who was well known due to his works on the interaction of point, linear and planar defects in plastic deformation of materials. He received his BS in 1953 and MS in 1955 from Columbia University.
In 1958 he received his PhD in metallurgy from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
In 1958 he started teaching at the University of Chicago and joined University of Illinois in 1961.