Milton S. Plesset

Milton Spinoza Plesset
Copenhagen 1963
Born	February 7, 1908(1908-02-07) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	February 19, 1991(1991-02-19) (aged 83)
Nationality	United States
Fields	Fluid dynamics
Institutions	University of Rochester California Institute of Technology
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh Yale University
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	Andrea Prosperetti Norman Zabusky
Known for	Rayleigh-Plesset equation Møller–Plesset perturbation theory
Notable awards	ASME Fluids Engineering Award[1]

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.^[2][3] Plesset served as Professor of Engineering Science at California Institute of Technology during 1951 to 1978. He with Christian Møller are known for the Møller–Plesset perturbation theory.^[4]

Education and work

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Plesset received his Bachelor's degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1929 and a Ph.D. from the 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.^[2]

References

1. ^ Fluids Engineering Award by American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2. ^ ^{a b} Memorial Tributes By National Academy of Engineering. National Academy of Engineering. 2008-12-31. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WD4rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA173&dq=Milton+S.+Plesset#PPA173,M1. 
3. ^ Dr. Milton S. Plesset at National Academy of Engineering
4. ^ Møller C., Plesset M. S. (1934). "Note on an Approximation Treatment for Many-Electron Systems". Physical Review 46 (7): 618–622. Bibcode 1934PhRv...46..618M. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.46.618. 

External links

• Milton S. Plesset at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Plesset, Milton S.
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Date of birth	7 February 1908
Place of birth	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date of death	19 February 1991
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