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RIKI KOBAYASHI
Pages 156-161

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... Riki graduated from Rice University (then known as the Rice Institute) in 1944 with a BS in chemical engineering when he was 19 years old.
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... At that time the Chemical Engineering Department was well known for the "Riki boxes" for measuring thermo­ ynamicd and transport properties at cryogenic conditions. These were complex instruments to measure properties of fluids at low temperatures for separation of components of natural gas.
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... He was hoping to use the principle of corresponding states to unify these properties. We were awarded a research grant by the National Science Foundation and Sho-Wei Lo earned her PhD showing that methane in live oil relaxed by the spin-rotation mechanism rather than the dipole-dipole interactions as was commonly assumed at that time.
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... He was awarded the Outstanding Engineering Award at Rice University in 1985 and the Albert Einstein Medal from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2010. Riki's legacy at Rice University is remembered by the Riki Kobayashi Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering.
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