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Joseph Kestin
Joseph Kestin
Pages 124-127
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Throughout his long and distinguished academic career, in which both experimental and theoretical research played so important a role, Professor Kestin was a superb teacher of undergraduate students. They, along with the host of other readers of his texts on thermodynamics, appreciated greatly his fundamental and challenging approach to the understanding as well as the use of thermodynamic principles.
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He served as visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States as well as at the University of Paris at Sorbonne, the Claude Bernard University, Imperial College, the universities of Stuttgart and Bochum in Germany, the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim, the Technical University in Lisbon, and the University of the Armed Forces in Munich. As appropriate in each situation, he taught courses and delivered many keynote lectures at national and international conferences in French or German or in elegant and impeccable, slightly British, English.
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He also served on numerous editorial boards, advisory boards, and panels of the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Bureau of Standards, and National Research Council as well as a number of other groups. In recognition of his broad contributions to the field of energy, Professor Kestin received a special citation from the governor of Rhode Island.
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