International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53 (2010) 4341–4342

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In Celebration

In celebration of the 75th birthday of professor Arthur E. Bergles

A phone call earlier this year from one of his many friends andcolleagues worldwide, reminded Art of the fact that his 75thbirthday was approaching (he reaches that three-quarter-century
milestone on August 9, 2010). He expressed amazement at how
quickly the years had passed, especially the last 5 years since he
was feted on his 70th. In his own version of relativity, Art attributed it to time speeding up and, with his unique sense of humor,
he quipped, ‘‘After all, when you are over the hill, everything
speeds up”. Even though, Art has been formally retired for 13 years,
his numerous research, educational, and professional interactions
lead to considerable skepticism amongst many of us that he ‘‘isover the hill”.
Art has been named a Life Member of the American Society ofEngineering Education (ASEE), Life Member of the American
Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers(ASHRAE), and 50-Year Member of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME), which some may consider to besynonymous with old age. However, he keeps a schedule that suggests anything but . . .. He continues to hold academic appointments that draw him into wide-ranging research activities: Clarkand Crossan Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY; Glenn L. Martin Institute Professorof Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park, MD; andSenior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. He is currentlydoi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.06.036

involved in different projects at each of these universities, including microchannel two-phase thermal-hydraulics, polymer heatexchangers, and enhancement of heat transfer in ‘inverted core’
nuclear reactors.
Some of us had honored Art previously on his seven-decade
milestone in the pages of this journal,1 and during the past 5 years
his professional engagement has continued unabated. He served on
the Honors and Awards Committee of ASHRAE for 3 years, andbegan a term on the ASME Committee on Honors. Currently, heis Chair of the Max Jakob Board of Award, representing the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He completed asix-year stint as the National Research Council (NRC) Liaison for
the Mechanical Engineering Section of the National Academy ofEngineering (NAE). Art was elected a member of the NAE in
1992, and he has been a regular member of the NRC panel to selectFord Doctoral Fellows. Also, he continues as a member of theVisiting Committee in Mechanical Engineering at Maryland, anda member of the Engineering Advisory Committee at the Universityof Connecticut. He served on the Board of Directors of the MIT Clubof Cape Cod for 4 years, co-chaired the MIT Class of 1957 50thReunion, and was elected President of the Class. A particularly
intense current commitment is President of the Osterville, MA, Rotary Club for 2010–2011.
On a more personal note and to add to this vintage year, Art andPenny celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 19, 2010.
Their ‘nest’ is long empty, and Penny has become an outstanding
ﬂower arranger and horticulturist. She has been an ofﬁcer in theOsterville Garden Club and is a State Flower Show Judge. She regularly wins prizes for her ﬂoral arrangements and for her plants.
Their two sons have also been successful. Eric is Vice President ofSales & Marketing at BaySpec Incorporated, an optoelectronics
company in Fremont, CA. He and his wife Joyce have two sons, ages
11 and 9. Dwight was just promoted to Professor of Neuroscienceat Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He and his wife
Susan, a practicing lawyer, have three children: a 9-year-old boy,and 4-year-old twin girls. Needless to say the Bergles household
on Cape Cod is very lively when the ﬁve grandchildren visit.
While enjoying the time with his family and grandchildren, hecontinues to make signiﬁcant contributions to engineering education and research in energy, thermal sciences, and heat transfer. Ina global acknowledgement of his accomplishments, Art has
1R.M. Manglik, J.P. Hartnett, and W.J. Minkowycz, ‘‘Professor Arthur E. Bergles on
his 70th Birthday”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 49, Nos. 3–4,pp. 447–448, 2006.

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recently received several additional honors. In 2008, he was madeHonorary Professor of Engineering Physics at St. Petersburg State
Polytechnic University, Russia, and received the Distinguished Service Award from the ASME Heat Transfer Division. In 2009, he wasawarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering Energetics fromthe Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
In a dedicated and truly meaningful effort to ensure the futureof heat transfer education and research, Art Bergles and Warren
Rohsenow have established, with a very generous endowment,
the Bergles–Rohsenow Young Investigator in Heat Transfer Award.
This ASME Society-level annual award has been given to seven outstanding young professors. Furthermore, Art and Penny establishedthe Bergles Professorship in Thermal Science in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, IA. The
second holder of this professorship was named last year.
While reﬂecting upon the past and speculating on the times tocome, Art considers the future to be bright for heat transfer, especially with the renewed worldwide urgency and focus on energy issues. To address the concerns of the ‘‘energy crisis”, to use thepopular idiom that ﬁrst found currency in the 1970’s and its manifestations over the three decades since, the essential role of heattransfer research and engineering is unquestionable.2 Nevertheless, Art has expressed several very fundamental concerns about
the workings of the heat transfer community. He ﬁnds that
researchers are so strapped for time that they have made a choice:‘‘Everybody has time to write, but nobody has time to read”. With
the emphasis on citations and related quantitative measures, Art
cautions of the very real danger that some excellent papers are
ignored in tenure/promotion and award decisions. Certainly, theolder literature, which apart from being seminal often provides
transformational guidance for future work, tends to be unknown
or ignored – especially if it does not turn up in computerized literature searches. With increasing reliance on information technology, this problem is compounded by the fact that vast portions of
the heat and mass transfer literature are still not scanned into
computer data bases so that full copies can be obtained. In his view
there also appear to be disadvantages associated with the total
reliance on electronic publishing – from submittal to review topublication to reading. For reading papers, he contends that theattention given to a computer monitor and an electronic copy isarguably less than that given to a hard copy. However, realizing

2In 1990–91, as President of ASME, Art had advocated for instituting a strong andwell-reasoned energy strategy, one which emphasizes reduced consumption andimproved efﬁciency rather than relying only on energy production, while the US
President and Congress of that time had debated this issue; see, for example, A.E.
Bergles, ‘‘A Closer Look at the National Energy Strategy”, ASME News, Vol. 10, No. 11,April 1991.

that every generation faults their successors, Art fervently hopesthat these problems will be overcome.
In the generational passage of time, Art is always pleased anddelighted to be in contact with his many former students and colleagues, who now reside in almost every part of our globe. Knowing that they are doing well is for him a source of both personal andprofessional joy! He is saddened, though, to learn of the passing ofvalued associates, which is happening with increasing frequency.
In reminiscing upon their work, Art hopes that their contributions
to heat transfer will not be forgotten, and so do we. We also hopethat, Art would continue to guide us with his wisdom for many,
many more years to come as we wish him good health and happiness in this 75th year of his exemplary life.
Raj M. Manglik *Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering,
598 Rhodes Hall, P.O. Box 210072, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0072, USA* Tel.: +1 513 556 5704; fax: +1 513 556 3390
E-mail address: Raj.Manglik@uc.edu
Avram Bar-Cohen
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Michael K. Jensen
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
T.S. Ravigururajan
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA
William C. Salmon
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC, USA
Ricardo D.M. de Carvalho
Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Itajubá – MG, Brazil
David L. Belden
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, USA
W.J. Minkowycz
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Available online 16 July 2010