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... He was a superb engineering educator and an outstanding leader in the international heat transfer community. Yasuo was born in Tokyo on February 24, 1923, raised by his parents in the company of two brothers and a sister, and stayed in Tokyo most of his life.
From page 220...
... As a young man Yasuo Mori earned recognition from the heat transfer research circle in the United States for his paper "Buoyancy Effects in Forced Laminar Convection Flow Over a Horizontal Flat Plate," published in 1961 in the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. The paper was the result of his work at Cornell University, where he was a Fulbright visiting scholar in 1959– 1960.
From page 221...
... . Yasuo's legacy is in the Japanese heat transfer community.
From page 222...
... He played a pivotal role in organizing the International Heat Transfer Conference in Tokyo in 1974 and the first US-Japan Heat Transfer Seminar in Tokyo in 1980. He was the principal coorganizer of the first US-Japan Thermal Engineering Joint Conference (Honolulu, 1983)
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... YA S U O M O R I 223 In the international heat transfer community, Yasuo is remembered both for his quick thinking and sharp manner of discussion at conference sessions, and as a congenial and likable gentleman on private occasions. He was also known as an avid sportsman since his youth.


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