Andreas Acrivos

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|birth_place = Athens, Greece

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|death_place = Stanford, California, U.S.

|nationality = American

|alma_mater = Syracuse University
University of Minnesota

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|doctoral_students = Gary Leal
John F. Brady

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|awards = Fluid Dynamics Prize (APS) (1991)
National Medal of Science (2001)

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|field = Fluid dynamics

|work_institutions = University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
City College of New York

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Andreas Acrivos (13 June 1928 – 17 February 2025) was a Greek-American physicist who was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He was also the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics.

Life and career

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Born in Athens, Greece, Acrivos moved to the United States to pursue an engineering education. He received a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1950; a master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1951; and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1954, all in chemical engineering.{{cite news |last1=Maranga |first1=Kwami |title=In Memory of Renowned Chemical Engineering Alum Andreas Acrivos ’50 |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2025/03/12/in-memory-of-renowned-chemical-engineering-alum-andreas-acrivos-50/ |access-date=12 March 2025 |work=Syracuse University News |date=12 March 2025}}[http://www-levich.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/aacv.htm Andreas Acrivos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002034751/http://www-levich.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/aacv.htm |date=2015-10-02 }} at City College of New York Retrieved 8 November 2008.

Acrivos is considered to be one of the leading fluid dynamicists of the 20th century.{{cite news |url=http://www.it.umn.edu/news/inventing/2001_Spring/acrivos.html |title=The apex of accomplishment |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=8 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923131643/http://it.umn.edu/news/inventing/2001_Spring/acrivos.html |archive-date=2010-09-23 |url-status=dead }} In 1954, Acrivos joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962, he moved to Stanford University, where he worked with Professor David Mason to build chemical engineering programs. In 1977, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in the application of mathematical analysis to the understanding of fundamental phenomena in chemical engineering processes. In 1987, Acrivos joined as the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of the City University of New York, succeeding Veniamin Levich.

From 1982 to 1997, Acrivos served as the editor-in-chief of Physics of Fluids.

Acrivos died in Stanford, California, on 17 February 2025, at the age of 96.[https://www.rheology.org/sor/News/InMemory-AndreasAcrivos_2025-02-21.aspx In Memory of Professor Andreas Acrivos]

Awards and honors

National Medal of Science, 2001
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=1 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021801/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2011 |url-status=live }}
Fluid Dynamics Prize, 1991{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Andreas%20Acrivos&year=1991 |title=1991 Fluid Dynamics Prize Recipient |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=25 April 2009 |archive-date=24 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124001256/http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Andreas%20Acrivos&year=1991 |url-status=live }}
G. I. Taylor Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 1988{{cite web|url=http://www.sesinc.org/medals/prager_taylor.html|title=G. I. Taylor Medal}}
Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering, 1977
Acrivos has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.{{cite web |url=http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=4545 |title=ISI Highly Cited Author - Andreas Acrivos |access-date=17 June 2009 }}{{dead link|date=August 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}