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In Memoriam: Richard J. Goldstein

We report with great sorrow the passing of Professor Richard J. Goldstein on 6March 2023 at the age of 94. He was truly
a giant in the ﬁelds of thermal sciences
research, engineering, and education, andis well known to everyone reading thismemoriam. He was a friend and mentor
to many throughout the world.
Professor Goldstein made major advances in optical measurement systems for
ﬂuid velocity and temperature, development of cooling designs
widely used in high-performance gas turbines, and novel and important measurements in thermal convection. He pioneered laser
Doppler velocimetry and hot-wire anemometry measurements anda variety of high-precision mass transfer based techniques to study
free and forced convection. He was the ﬁrst to experimentally
conﬁrm the critical Rayleigh number for instabilities in Rayleigh–Bénard convection with shear-free boundaries. His research has
been presented across more than 300 scientiﬁc publications. His
many studies on ﬁlm cooling, including his ingenious use of
shaped holes for ﬁlm cooling of surfaces, along with his numerous investigations on jet impingement cooling, led to increased efﬁciency and reliability of high-performance gas turbines for power
generation and aircraft propulsion. Many consider him to be the“father of ﬁlm cooling.”
Professor Goldstein was born in New York City and graduatedfrom Stuyvesant High School in 1944. After receiving his B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1948, he went
on to pursue his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1950) andPhysics (1951) from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Subsequently, he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Development Engineer in 1951. After a brief stint in the US Army
as a ﬁrst lieutenant, he returned to the University of Minnesota
Twin Cities in 1956 to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Ernst R. G. Eckert. During his
doctoral pursuits, he was a recipient of the Honeywell Fellowship(1955–57) and worked as an engineer for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. After obtaining his doctorate (1959), Professor Goldsteinjoined the College of Engineering at Brown University as an Assistant Professor. Following a year at Brown University, he joined Centre National de la Recherche Scientiﬁque as a NATO PostdoctoralFellow (1960). He ultimately returned to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 1961 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, wherein he progressively served
as an Associate Professor (1961–1965), Professor (1965–1990), Department Head (1977–1997), Regents’ Professor (1990–2018), andRegents’ and James J. Ryan Professor Emeritus (2018–2023). He had
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a deep passion for teaching and creating opportunities for others.
During his six-decade-long academic career, he mentored 74 doctoral and 82 master’s students, as well as several visiting and postdoctoral scholars.
Professor Goldstein established a very long record of service tothe scientiﬁc and engineering community both domestically andinternationally, including major leadership roles, such as Presidentof the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences, President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), andPresident of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer(ICHMT). He served as an honorary member of the Associazione
Termotecnica Italiana (2006) and as the chairman of the honorary
editorial advisory board for the International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer and the International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer for several years.
Professor Goldstein’s honours and recognitions include
honorary doctoral degrees, visiting professorships, fellowships/memberships in prestigious professional and honorarysocieties, and honorary editorial advisory board memberships inesteemed journals. His distinguished contributions to the ﬁeld ofheat transfer were recognized through many prestigious awardssuch as the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1978), theAIChE/ASME Max Jakob Memorial Award (1990), the ICHMT LuikovMedal (1990), the Nusselt–Reynolds Prize (1993), the ICHMT Fellowship Award (2004), and the ASME Medal (2006). He was also
bestowed fellowships in reputed societies such as the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (1986), the American
Physical Society (1989), the American Society for Engineering
Education (1997), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(1999), and the Royal Academy of Engineering (1999). He was amember of the United States National Academy of Engineering(1985), the National Academy of Engineering—Mexico (1991),
the European Academy of Science and Arts (2016), and the Pan
American Academy of Engineering (2019). In recognition of his pioneering contributions to the ﬁeld of energy, the ASME established
the Richard J. Goldstein Energy Lecture Award in 2019. More recently, the ICHMT established the ICHMT Hewitt–Goldstein Young
Investigator Award in recognition of Geoff F. Hewitt and RichardJ. Goldstein, pioneering members of the ICHMT and outstanding
leaders in the ﬁeld of heat transfer and energy.
Professor Goldstein’s most important contributions do not comewith awards or medals, but are felt in the hearts of the many
students, young faculty members, colleagues, and other acquaintances whom he mentored and otherwise inﬂuenced through theircareers. Though often stated to him throughout his career, manywritten and spoken heartfelt comments of appreciation were presented in 2018 at a celebration of his 90th birthday.

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Professor Goldstein was a major leader in the international
heat and mass transfer and energy engineering communities formany years. His passion for scholarship and engineering, leadership, guidance, and support for his friends, colleagues and students, and never-ending enthusiasm and kindness will be greatly
missed by scientists and engineers around the world.

Ulrich Gross
Freiberg, Germany
Kemal Hanjalic´
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Delft, The Netherlands
Abel Hernandez-Guerrero
Salamanca, Mexico

We offer our deepest condolences.

John R. Howell
Austin, USA

Umesh Madanan
Kanpur, India
umadanan@iitk.ac.in

Sergey Isaev
St Petersburg, Russia

Wojciech LipińskiGrójec, Poland
wsl@member.fsf.org

Yogesh Jaluria
Piscataway, USA

Terrence W. Simon
Minneapolis, USAsimon002@umn.edu

Artem Khalatov
Kyiv, Ukraine
Thomas Kuehn
Minneapolis, USA

Alptekin Aksan
Minneapolis, USA

Francis A. Kulacki
Minneapolis, USAFaruk Arinç
Ankara, Türkiye

Denis Lemonnier
Poitiers, France

Yildiz Bayazitoglu
Houston, USA

Raj M. Manglik
Cincinnati, USA

John Bischof
Minneapolis, USA

Shigenao Maruyama
Hachinohe, Japan

Jaime Cervantes
Mexico City, Mexico

M. Pinar Mengüç
Istanbul, Türkiye

Ping Cheng
Shanghai, China

Josua P. Meyer
Stellenbosch, South Africa

Pedro J.M. Coelho
Lisbon, Portugal

Wally J. Minkowycz
Chicago, USA

Renato M. Cotta
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Michael F. Modest
Merced, USA

Maurizio Cumo
Rome, Italy

Abdulmajeed MohamadCalgary, Canada

Jane H. Davidson
Minneapolis, USA

Andrzej Nowak
Gliwice, Poland

Siaka Dembele
London, UK

Helcio Orlande
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paolo Di MarcoPisa, Italy

Jacques Padet
Reims, France

Leonid A. Dombrovsky
Moscow, Russia

Suhas Patankar
Minneapolis, USA

Ivan V. Egorov
Moscow, Russia

David Y.H. Pui
Minneapolis, USA

Tim Fisher
Los Angeles, USA

James Ramsey
Louisville, USA

L.S. “Skip” Fletcher
College Station, USA

Yelena Shafeyeva
Redding, USASteven Girshick
Oakland, USA

Evgueni M. Smirnov
Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Berkeley, USA2International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 209 (2023) 124155

Vinod Srinivasan
Minneapolis, USA

Leonard L. Vasiliev
Minsk, Belarus

Aldo Steinfeld
Zurich, Switzerland

Qiuwang Wang
Xi’an, China

Peter StephanDarmstadt, Germany

Brent W. Webb
Provo, USA

Janusz Szmyd
Kraków, Poland

William Worek
Chicago, USA

Kumar K. Tamma
Minneapolis, USA

Hideo Yoshida
Kyoto, Japan

Wen-Quan Tao
Xi’an, China

Xing Zhang
Beijing, China

Ilker Tari
Ankara, Türkiye

Tianshou Zhao
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

John Thome
Lausanne, Switzerland

Gennady Ziskind
Be’er Sheva, Israel

Victoria Timchenko
Sydney, Australia

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