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Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. i-ii, 1989
in Great Britain

Professor James P. Hartnett
on his 65th birthday

IT IS A pleasure to celebrate in this issue of the Znternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer the sixty-

fifth birthday of one of its founders, Professor JamesP. Hartnett, who was born on 19 March 1924. The
breadth of Professor Hartnett’s accomplishments andthe importance of his contributions to the heat transfer community add significance to this occasion. Hehas consistently excelled in all that he has undertaken,
and by doing so he has dignified and significantly
enhanced his profession.
The record which has evolved from Professor Hartnett’s life’s work is unique and evokes well-deserved
admiration. Not only has he amassed impressive
research credentials, but he has also made unparalleled contributions to the development of an international heat transfer community and to the fosteringof publication vehicles for heat transfer information.
Furthermore, he has provided pioneering leadershipin the applied fields of energy management and energy
policy, thereby serving as a model of how fundamentals and applications are effectively interrelated.
There have been three main themes in Professor
Hartnett’s 35-year research record. In the 1950s and1960s in response to the special needs of nuclear
reactor cooling, he undertook fundamental experimental studies of liquid metal heat transfer whichyielded major contributions to the permanent literature. Another important application, space flight andthe re-entry problem, motivated the second major
theme-masstransfer cooling. Here, his contributions, which encompassed both experiment andanalysis, have become standard reference. In morerecent years, he has turned his attention to one of themost difficult unsolved problems of heat transferheat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids. There is nodoubt that his work in this subject is at the very
frontier of knowledge.
Beside these main themes, Professor Hartnett has
worked broadly in areas of heat transfer as diverseas thermal radiation, conduction, duct flows, andimpingement flows. His ability to deal effectively withsuch a diversity of subject matter is further testimony
to his prowess as a researcher. All told, the fruits of
his research have yielded a harvest of about 150
papers. He also has served as adviser for 20 doctoral
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Apart from his research,
Professor
Hartnett
isbroadly acknowledged
as being one of the key architects and builders of the international
heat transfer
community as it exists today. It was he who secured
breakthroughs
which opened up channels of communication between countries which, in the past, had
carried on heat transfer research in their separateways.
He played a key role in the formation of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer and its
continuing activities. He has served on advisory committees and as a consultant
on research and educational
activities
in the Soviet Union,
EasternEurope,
SoutheastAsia, Korea,Thailand,andRomania. In addition, he has been a visiting professor
at the University of Tokyo, the University of Alexandria, and the Israel Institute of Technology.
In
1980, he was invited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to visit the People’s Republic of China and topresent lectures at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Academy and at several universities.
He has lectured in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Israel,
Yugoslavia, China, India, and Japan. Most recently
he was awarded a 1987 Research Fellowship by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science.
His contributions
to the disseminationof information to the heat transfer community are of enormous scope. He was a prime mover in the founding,and later in the development, of the ZnternationalJournal of Heat and Mass TranTfer, Heat Transfer-Soviet
Research, Heat Transfer-Japanese
Research, EnergyDevelopments in Japan, International Communications
in Heat and Mass Transfer, and Previews of Heat andMass Transfer.
In addition to his many journal editorships, he has

been co-editor of the Advances in Heat TranTfer series,
where definitive state-of-the-art
review articles arepublished. The Handbook of Heat Transfer is anotherof his editing achievements. He has also been an editorof the Hemisphere/McGraw-Hillseries in Thermul
and Fluids Engineering.
While continuing
to maintainhis active commitment to fundamental
research, Professor Hartnett
has broadened
the scope of his interests to include
energy technology and energy policy. He has written
widely on these subjects and, as Director of the Energy
Resources
Center at the Universityof Illinois at
Chicago, he has operated in the real world of policy
implementationand legislation.
Many honors have been bestowed on Professor
Hartnettin recognitionof his significant achievements. He was the recipient of the A. V. Luikov
Medal, the Memorial
Award of the ASME Heat
Transfer Division, a Fulbright Award, a Guggenheim
Fellowship,
the Professional
Achievement
Awardfrom his Alma Mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the ASME Heat Transfer Division 50thAnniversary Award. He is a Fellow of both the ASME
and AIChE.
Professor Hartnett has dignified the heat transfer
community by the breadth and excellence of his contributions. We wish both Jim and his wife Edith good
health and continued professional success in the years
to come.
W. J. MINK~W~CZ
E. M. SPARROW
E. R. G. ECKERT
R. J. C;OLDSTEIN
T. F. IRVINE. JR.