Morton Denn
Morton M. Denn | |
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| Born | Morton Mace Denn July 7, 1939 Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| Occupation(s) | Rheologist, professor |
| Years active | 1965-present |
| Title | Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering |
| Spouse | Vivienne Roumani |
| Children | 3, including Matt Denn |
| Awards | Fulbright Lectureship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bingham Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Princeton University (BScE), University of Minnesota (PhD) |
| Thesis | "The Optimization by Complex Processes" (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rutherford Aris |
| Other advisors | William R. Schowalter, Arthur B. Metzner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Rheology, chemical engineering |
| Institutions | University of Delaware, Berkeley, City College of New York |
| Notable students | Benny D. Freeman, Rakesh Jain, Yogesh M. Joshi, Glenn Lipscomb |
Morton Mace Denn (born July 7, 1939) is a rheologist, chemical engineer, and the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and winner of a Fulbright Lectureship award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Bingham Medal. He previously taught at the University of Delaware and the University of California, Berkeley and was the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics from 2001 to 2015. He was also a program leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 16 years.