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Nationality
  
United States

Notable students
  
Fields
  
Name
  
Milton Plesset


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Born
  
February 7, 1908Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (
1908-02-07
)

Institutions
  
University of RochesterCalifornia Institute of Technology

Alma mater
  
University of PittsburghYale University

Doctoral students
  
Andrea ProsperettiChris WhippleNorman Zabusky

Known for
  
Rayleigh-Plesset equationMoller–Plesset perturbation theory

Notable awards
  
ASME Fluids Engineering Award

Died
  
February 19, 1991, Los Angeles, California, United States

Education
  

Doctoral advisor
  

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.

Education and work

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Plesset received his bachelor's degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1929 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1932. Soon after his Ph.D. Plesset joined Caltech and worked with Robert Oppenheimer. Together, they undertook a theoretical study of positron using Dirac equation in quantum electrodynamics to show how electron-positron pairs were formed.

References

Milton S. Plesset Wikipedia


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