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DOI 10.1007/s00231-007-0314-z

LAUDATIO

Professor Dr. Sadik Kakac 75 years
Franz Mayinger

Published online: 19 July 2007
Ó Springer-Verlag 2007

One of the most outstanding scientists in Heat and MassTransfer, Professor Dr. Sadik Kakac celebrated his 75thbirthday on 1 October 2007.
Sadik Kakac made many seminal and epoch-making
contributions to heat transfer sciences. His work extends
over a wide field of fundamental as well as of appliedresearch, covering forced convective heat transfer, heattransfer in multiphase flow, electronic cooling, heat transfer in micro channels, heat transfer in bio-systems andstudies on energy conversion systems.
Professor Kakac is the author and coauthor of 7 textbooks, of over 200 research papers and scientific publications and he edited 15 volumes in the field of Thermal
Sciences. Famous are also the numerous NATO Advanced
Study Institutes initiated, organized and headed by him,F. Mayinger (&)
Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik, TU München,
85747 Garching, Germany
e-mail: mayinger@td.mw.tum.dewhich were dealing with a broad field of interesting andvery relevant subjects of Thermal Sciences and where hebrought together scientists from all over the world. So heoffered a great forum for exchanging new ideas through aninternational community.
Professor Kakac was graduated from Technical University of Istanbul and performed post graduate studies atMIT. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University ofManchester, England. After teaching at the Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, he joined in 1982 the University of Miami, teaching Thermal and Fluid Sciences.
From 1990 to 1998 he was the Chairman of the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering there.
Professor Kakac was and is active in several scientificand public services. So he is a member of the ScientificCouncil of the International Center for Heat and MassTransfer. He serves in several editorial boards of scientificjournals, for example as a member of the Honorary Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Heatand Mass Transfer, as an Editor of the International Journalof Hydrogen Energy and as an Associate Editor-in-Chief ofthe International Journal of Thermal Sciences. Several
scientific and governmental institutions gained benefit by
his advice, so for example the OECD Environment Committee and the NATO Science Committee.
Thanks to his excellent contributions to many fields inheat and mass transfer, he has been awarded with many
honours such as the German Alexander von HumboldtResearch-Award for Senior US Scientists, the ASME HeatTransfer Memorial Award and the ICHMT FellowshipAward. The University of Reims, France, and the University of Ovidius, Romania, bestowed on him the Doctor
Honoris Causa. He is a member of the Academy ofSciences of the Russian Federation and of the Turkish

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Academy of Sciences. He is the Honorary Professor of theShanghai Institute of Electric Power, People’s Republic ofChina, Consulting Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University,
People’s Republic of China and the Honorary Professorof the Engineering College at the Ghandi Institute ofTechnology and Management, India.

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Sadik Kakac is not only an eminent scientist and greatteacher, his very charming personality makes him a wonderful and beloved friend to everybody who becomesfamiliar with him. Dear Sadik, we all, your friends andcolleagues, wish you and your lovely wife Filiz all the best
and many happy, healthy and successful years.