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PROFESSORJAMESP. HARTNETT

ON60THBIRTHDAYHIS

IS both a pleasure
and a privilege to extol1 the broad
ranging and highly significant accomplishmentsofProfessor James P. Hartnett on the occasion of his 60thbirthday. Professor Hartnett’s contributions
to theheat transfer community are unique in their breadthand, perhaps more than any other person, he has
fostered the sense of community to its farthest reaches.
To complement and reinforce his community-related
activities,
Professor
Hartnett
has wrought
anoutstanding
record of heat transfer
research,
aswitnessed by his over 100 published papers, by morethan a dozen doctoral theses completed
under hisdirection, numerous review articles, and editorships ofimportant reference sources. Professor Hartnett is aninitiator and an innovator who has had the energy andconviction to bring his visions to fruition.
Nowhere are his community-related
activities moreevident than on the international
scene. He was theprime mover in the founding,and later in thedevelopment, of the International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer, Heat Transfer-Soviet Research, HeatTransfer- Japanese Research, Energy Developments inITilMi

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Japan and International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer (formerly Letters in Heat and MassTransfer). He played an important role in the formation
ofthe International
Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer
and in its continuing
activities. He has served onadvisorycommittees
and as a consultant
oneducational research and educational activities in theU.S.S.R., Eastern Europe, Southeast
Asia, Korea,
Thailand, and Romania. In addition, he has been avisiting professor at the Universityof Tokyo, theUniversity of Alexandria, and at the Israel Institute ofTechnology. In 1980, he was invited by the Chinese
Academy of Sciences to visit the People’s Republic ofChina and to present lectures at the Institute forEngineering Thermophysics
of the Academy and atseveral universities.
Professor
Hartnett
has also made important
contributions
to the disseminationof information
tothe heat transfer community. In addition to his several
journal editorships,
he has been co-editorof theAdvances in Heat Transfer series, where definitive stateof-the-art review articles are published. The Handbook
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PROFESSORJAMESP. HARTNETTof Heat Transfer is another of his editing achievements.
He has also been an editor of the Hemisphere/
McGraw-Hill
Series in Thermal and Fluids Engineering.
Professor Hartnett has given generously of his timeto professional and governmental bodies, including theNational Science Foundation,NASA, ASME, AIAA,
and the Franklin Institute. In many respects he was thefounding father of the Midwest Universities Energy
Consortiumand has been a key driving force of theorganization since its inception.
Professor Hartnett’s research activities have rangedwidely, but there have been three main foci of his work.
He has made fundamental
contributions
to theunderstanding
ofheat transfer in liquid metals, to masstransfer cooling, and more recently to heat transfer inviscoelastic fluids.
While continuing to maintain his active commitment
to fundamental
research,
Professor
Hartnetthas
broadened the scope of his interests to include energy
technology and energy policy. He has written widely onthese subjects and, as director of the Energy Resources
Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has
operated in the real world of policy implementationand legislation.
Many honors have been bestowed on Professor
Hartnett in recognition of his lofty achievements.
Hewas the recipient of the A. V. Luikov Medal, theMemorial Award ofthe ASME Heat Transfer Division,a Fulbright Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and theProfessional Achievement Award from his alma mater,
the Illinois Institute of Technology.

An Easterner by birth (Lynn, Massachusetts,19March1924) Professor
Hartnett
obtained
hiseducationfrom excellent
universities
across thebreadth of the nation: bachelor’s degree from theIllinois Institute of Technology, master’s degree fromthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D.
from the University of California at Berkeley. Aftercompleting
his doctoral
work, Professor
Hartnettserved as a professor at the University of Minnesota
where he helped to build the Heat Transfer Laboratory
at that institution. Then, he accepted the chairmanshipof the MechanicalEngineering
Department
at theUniversity of Delaware, where he was a prime mover inthe development of laboratories and research facilities.
Ever innovating and building, he undertook, in 1965,
the task of developing a new department at the newly
formed University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1974, heaccepted still another challenge in creating the Energy
Resources Center at the University of Illinois.
To complement
his great talents and energies,
Professor
Hartnett
is endowed with an outgoing
personality which has increased the effectiveness of hiswork. His multitudinous contributions are deserving of
the highest praise and respect.
W. J. MINKOWYCZ
E. M. SPARROW
R. J. GOLDSTEIN
E. R. G. ECKERT
T. F. IRVINE,JR.