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Professor James P. Hartnett
on his 70th birthday

In addition to these main themes, Professor Hartnett has worked broadly in diverse areas of heat transfer such as thermal properties of solids, interaction ofconvection
and radiation in boundary layer flows,radiation and thermophysicalproperties of materials,conduction,duct flows and impingementflows. Hisability to deal effectively with such a variety of subject
matter is further testimony to his research accomplishments. In total, the fruits of his research have yieldeda harvest of about 170 papers. He also has served asadvisor for 20 completed doctoral theses.
Apart from his research, Professor
Hartnett
isamong the acknowledged
key architects and buildersof the international
heat transfer community
as it
exists today. It was he who succeeded in securing
breakthroughs
to open up channels of communication
between countries which had earlier carried out heattransfer research in their separate ways.
He was one of the original proposers of the International Heat Transfer Conferences which will holdits 10th Conference this year in Brighton, England. Infact, many of the ideas and much of the structure ofthe Assembly for InternationalHeat Transfer Conferences come out of a social setting in his house. He
played a key role in the formation of the International
Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer. He has servedon advisory committees and also as a consultant on
research and educational
activities in the former

IT IS FITTING
to dedicate this special issue of theInternational Journal qf Heat and Mass Tramfkr tocelebrate the 70th birthday of one of its founders,Professor James P. Hartnett. Professor Hartnett, who
was born in Lynn, Massachusetts
on 19 March 1924,
has amassed impressive credentials in the field of heatand mass transfer. He is a world-class editor and has
done more than anyone else to promote international
cooperationin heat transfer research and the publication of research results. Furthermore,
he has provided inspiring leadership in energy management andenergy policy, thus bridging the gap between scientificknowledge base and its application for the benefit ofsociety.
There are three main themes in Professor Hartnett’s
40 year research record. In the 1950s and 1960s inresponseto the special needs of nuclear reactor
cooling, he undertook fundamental
studies of liquid
metal heat transfer which yielded major contributions
to the permanent literature. Space flight and the reentry problem motivated the second major theme-mass transfer cooling. Here, his contributions,whichinvolved both experiment and analysis, have become
standardreferences. In more recent years, he hasturned his attention to one of the most difficult areasof heat transfer-heattransfer to non-Newtonian
fluids. There is no doubt that his work in this subject
is at the very frontier of knowledge.

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B. T. CHAO cr ul.

Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia andKorea. 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, hewas invited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences tovisit the People’s Republic of China and to present
lectures at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics
and at several universities. Subsequently he has been
invited back to China three more times and has beenresponsible in furthering a relationshipbetween hisuniversity and the Northeastern
University of Technology in Shenyang. He has also lectured in the former
Soviet Union,Brazil, Israel. England.
Czechoslovakia, Romania, India, Italy, Taiwan and Japan.
He was awarded a 1987 Research Fellowship by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science to conduct
a six-week lecture tour over all of Japan.
His contributions
to the disseminationof information to the heat transfer community are seminal.
He was a prime mover in the founding and development of the International Journal of’ Heat and MassTran.@,Heat Transfir Research (formerlyHeatTramfer---Soviet Research), Heat Tramfer-Japanese
Research, International Communications in Heat andMass Transftir and Preview of Heat and Mass Transf>r.
In addition to his many journal editorships, he has
been a co-editor of the Advances in Heat Transfer
series (25 volumes) where definitive state-of-the-art
review articles were published and of the Handbookof’ Heat Tramfer (two editions). He has also been
an editor of the Hemisphere/McGraw-Hillseries in
Thermal and Fluids Engineering.
In 1974, he founded the Energy Resources Center at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been its
directorever since. This is an interdisciplinary
research and public service organization
which provides and disseminates
information
on energy technology and policy. Concurrent
with this activity, hehas served, by appointmentof the Illinois legislature,as the secretary of the Illinois Energy Resources Com-mission which advises the legislatureon energy
matters. He is often called upon for testimony andadvice on energy questions by the U.S. Congress andby state and federal government agencies.
Many honors have been bestowed on Professor
Hartnettin recognitionof his significant achievements. He has been the recipient of the A. V. Luikov
Medal of the International
Centre for Heat and MassTransfer, the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award,
the Max Jakob Award of A.1.Ch.E. and ASME, andthe ASME Heat Transfer Division 50th Anniversary
Award. He was also the recipient of a FulbrightAward, a Guggenheim
Fellowshipand the Professional Achievement Award from his Alma Mater,
the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow ofboth the A.1.Ch.E. and ASME.
Professor Hartnett has honored the heat transfer
community by the breadth and excellence of his activities. In the midst of what is rightfully a long encomiumof Professor Hartnett’s many contributions
to the heattransfer and engineering community must be added acompellingand vital tribute to Jim Hartnett-theman. He has been friend and counselor, wise sage andcheerful confidant to us and countless other colleagues
in times of need, and has unselfishly promoted theactivities of others. Many of his colleagues have contributed to this special issue of the journal as a tokenof their esteem both for him as a person and for hiscontributions
to the heat transfer field. On their behalf
and for his many friends worldwide, we wish Jim andhis wife Edith good health and continued success inthe years to come.
B. T. CHAO
Y. I. CHO
E. R. G. ECKERT
R. J. GOLDSTEIN
T. F. IRVINE,JR.
W. J. MINKOWY~Z
W. M. ROHS~NOW
E. M. SPARROW
C.-L. TIEN