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Personal report

Professor Arthur E. Bergles on his 70th birthday

In a career that has spanned nearly ﬁve decades, Professor Arthur E. Bergles has been a pioneer in the ﬁeld of convective and ebullient heat transfer, engineering practice andeducation, and perhaps the most ardent and internationallywell-known articulator of the science and engineering ofenhanced heat and mass transfer. August 9, 2005, marks
the seven-decade milestone of his dedicated life, and it gives
us great pleasure to felicitate him and celebrate this day
along with his many colleagues, friends, and students allover the world. On his part and in his own inimitable modest ways, Art feels very honored to have been given extensive write-ups on the occasion of his 60th [1,2] and 65th [3]birthdays. Although he says that he is ‘‘slowing down’’, hehas been keeping very busy and quite productive, and isdelighted to reach his 70th birthday. Some prominent
highlights of the past ﬁve years of his illustrious life andcareer are indeed worth noting.
Art is the Clark and Crossan Professor of Engineering,Emeritus, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Also, he continues to hold adjunct appointments as Glenn
L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and as senior lecturer
in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, MA. His research has surely gotten ‘‘smaller’’, speciﬁcally, microchannels. His most recentpaper (with S.G. Kandlikar [4]) is directed at explaining thenature of critical heat ﬂux in microchannel heat sinks. With
R.M. Manglik, he has resumed the survey of literature on
convective heat transfer enhancement [5]. The total numberof papers and reports worldwide that are added annually to
doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2005.07.017

this bibliography is now around 400, a number predicted
by Art Bergles in 1996.
A staunch believer in international co-operation, Art has
had signiﬁcant activities with Bosnia–Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. He washonorary co-chairman of the International Symposium on
Heat Transfer Enhancement and Energy Conservation,held in Guangzhou, China, in January 2004. He co-chaired
the Second International Thermal Science Seminar, which
took place in Bled, Slovenia, June 2004. Most recently inMay 2005, Art was visiting lecturer in heat transfer at theFederal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Most of all, he believes in the future of the thermal sciences, in general, and heat transfer, in particular, and hastaken several actions to promote the ﬁeld. Art and his family endowed the Bergles Professorship in Thermal Sciences
at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, where he was activefor 14 years. The ﬁrst Bergles professor was named in
2003, and the Bergles Symposium on Thermal Sciences
was held at ISU in October of that year. With Professor
Warren M. Rohsenow, Art’s dissertation advisor at MIT,the Bergles–Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat
Transfer was established as an ASME society award, andthe ﬁrst award was given in November 2004.
One of Art’s activities in recent years, building on his
hobby of photography, has been to develop slide shows
to honor friends and colleagues. These were presented at
the Rohsenow Symposium in 2003, the Chu Symposiumin 2003, the Kraus Symposium in 2004, and the Mikic
Symposium in 2005.

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Over the years Art Bergles’s accomplishments have notgone unnoticed. He has been recognized by professionalsocieties and universities throughout the world. He is a Fellow of seven societies, was awarded two honorary degrees,
was given the major awards in heat transfer (Heat Transfer
Memorial, D.Q. Kern, Max Jakob, and Luikov awards),
and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Morerecently, he received the Nusselt–Reynolds Prize of theAssembly of International Conferences in Experimental
Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics(2001), was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Artsof Slovenia (2001), made Honorary Professor at Beijing
Polytechnic University (2001), given the ITherm Achievement Award of the Intersociety Conference on Thermaland Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems(2002), received the Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award
from ASHRAE (2002), given an International SFT Awardby the French Thermal Society (2002), elected to the exclusive Italian National Academy of Sciences (2003), andnamed the Hines Lecturer at the University of Florida(2004).
Art continues to be very busy in a variety of professional
activities. He notes that all of his activities are ‘‘low level’’,but there are so many of them that, integrated, they constitute a major commitment. In spite of this, Art and his wife,Penny, are now taking real vacations (snorkeling in theCaribbean, and skiing in Colorado), and spending moretime with their grandchildren who now number threegrandsons. Also, Art is always particularly pleased to keepin contact with former students, and learn that they aredoing well. Contemplating his life’s journey, he contends
that getting older is indeed like riding a bicycle: if you do
not keep peddling, you will fall; and he says that he is certainly peddling harder these days in an attempt to keep up
with the accelerating pace of change. May he peddle far
and in good health in this remarkable and inspirational

excursion, as we wish him a very happy 70th, with many,
many more returns of the day!
References[1] R.M. Manglik, M.K. Jensen, A. Bar-Cohen, A.D. Kraus, Arthur E.
Bergles, in: R.M. Manglik, A.D. Kraus (Eds.), Process, Enhanced,and Multiphase Heat Transfer, Begell House, New York, NY, 1996,
pp. xi–xxxi.
[2] M.K. Jensen, R.M. Manglik, A. Bar-Cohen, J.P. Hartnett, W.J.
Minkowycz, Professor Arthur E. Bergles on his 60th birthday,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 39 (10) (1996)
2007–2008.
[3] R.M. Manglik, A pioneer, advocate, and articulator of the science andengineering of enhanced heat transfer: Professor Arthur E. Bergles on
his 65th birthday, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer 8 (2) (2001) 73–76.
[4] A.E. Bergles, S.G. Kandlikar, On the nature of critical heat ﬂux inmicrochannels, Journal of Heat Transfer 127 (1) (2005) 101–107.
[5] R.M. Manglik, A.E. Bergles, Enhanced heat and mass transfer in thenew millennium: a review of the 2001 literature, Journal of Enhanced
Heat Transfer 11 (2) (2004) 87–118.

R.M. Manglik
Department of Mechanical, Industrialand Nuclear Engineering
University of Cincinnati
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