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Professor Sadik Kakacß on his 70th birthday

Professor S. Kakacß is one of the well-known scientists in the ﬁeld of thermal sciences and well respectedamongst his professional colleagues. He was born on
October 1, 1932 in Corum, Turkey. He received his degree of Dipl.-Ing. from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul (1955)
and his S.M. (1959) in Mechanical Engineering, and hisS.M. (1960) in Nuclear Engineering, both from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965, he received his Ph.D. in the ﬁeld of heat transfer from theVictoria University of Manchester, UK. He became afull professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1971 atthe Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He waselected as a member of the Turkish Scientiﬁc andTechnical Research Council in 1972 and the General
Secretary of the Turkish Atomic Energy Commission in
1978, and represented Turkey in a number of scientiﬁcendeavors abroad. He became professor of MechanicalEngineering at the University of Miami (1982) andChairman of the Department (1990–1998).
He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt
Senior Distinguished US Scientists Award (1990), theASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1997), and theICHMT Fellowship Award (1997), Distinguished Service Award from the Middle East Technical University(1998) and from the Turkish Scientiﬁc and TechnicalResearch Council (TUBITAK) (2000). He is a fellow of
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the ASME, member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of the Sciences of RussianFederation. He is a honorary professor of Shanghai
Institute of Electrical Power, China; consulting professor of XiÕan Jiaotong University, China; and honorary
professor of the College of Engineering at the Ghandi
Institute of Technology and Management (India); hereceived the Doctor Honoris Causa, University Ovidius,Romania (1998) and the Doctor Honoris from theUniversity of Reims, France (1999). He is the author orco-author of six heat transfer text books, and more than
200 research papers, as well as 14 edited volumes in theﬁeld of thermal sciences and heat exchanger fundamentals and design, including the Handbook of SinglePhase Convective Heat Transfer.
The research work of Professor Kakacß has covered awide scientiﬁc spectrum starting from theoretical modeling of transient forced convection to experimental andtheoretical analysis of heat transfer with convective
boiling and multi-phase ﬂow, hydrogen energy, and fuelcells. He has also been occupied with problems concerning nuclear safety. However, his topic of most intense dedication is the research in two-phase-ﬂow
instabilities with vapor–liquid ﬂows. In all of theseﬁelds he has performed pioneering work to become oneof the most outstanding scientists in the ﬁeld of heattransfer.

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Professor Kakacß became member of editorial advisory boards in diﬀerent journals––International Journalof Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of
Thermal and Fluid Sciences, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Advances in Transport
Processes, Journal of Hybrid Methods in Engineering,
and associate editor of International Journal of Thermal
Sciences. His remarkable international reputation is also
documented by his appointment to editorial boards ofother highly recognized international journals outside
his ﬁeld of most direct participation, such as the Journalof Pure and Applied Sciences and the International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He has been frequentlyinvited as lecturer and speaker by various institutions in
the USA, Europe, Japan, Brazil, and China.
Especially well known and highly appreciated are hisactivities in organizing NATO-Advanced Study Institutes
in regular intervals on various topics of thermal sciences.
Convening in his native Turkey, Professor Kakacß helped
advance international cooperation in engineering education and research through these ASIs by carefully forming
multi-national teams of heat transfer experts and young
educators that he invited to the ASIs.
His former graduate students have already madetheir names in the ﬁeld of heat transfer. In addition tohis own graduate students, Professor Kakacß was also
responsible for advising and supporting a number ofother younger scientists that have fortunately crossed hisway, all over the world, who are nowadays mature andwell-established scientists, mostly due to his endless help
and encouragement. Besides all the quite evident qualities as an individual and the well-documented achievements as a scientist, Prof. Kakacß has inherently provided
the world with a signiﬁcant contribution towards theapproaching of diﬀerent cultures and research ideas,
allowed for by his international leadership and restlessscientiﬁc exchange activities.
Professor Kakacß is a devoted husband, father, andgrandfather. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, on
behalf of his students, colleagues and friends all over theworld, we wish him a very happy birthday and many
more active years in good health and happiness with hiswife Filiz Kakacß, daughter Yasemin, and grandchildren,
Melda and Cahit.
R. Cotta
J. Padet
W.J. Minkowycz
R.I. Nigmatulin
W.-J. Yang