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Published by Pergamon Press, 1964
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Revised Edition. Our copy the 1964 reprint, with corrections, of the Second Revised Edition. Blue cloth with gilt on spine. There is a half inch tear in the cloth at the top left corner of the spine. Pencil notations on several pages. From the library of E. N.(Edwin Niblock) Lightfoot, with his name inside the front cover and on the title page. A 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.