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IRVIN GLASSMAN
Pages 128-133

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From page 129...
... We miss now an extraordinary colleague and friend, well known for highly energetic, productive, and impactful engagement in research, teaching, mentoring of younger colleagues, editorial leadership, and organizational development. Through these activities, he was a very prominent leader both in defining the modern field of combustion science and engineering and in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.
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From page 130...
... It also stimulated his overarching career interests in chemical effects on fire safety, propulsion, energy conversion, and environmental emissions. His research was done mostly at the Guggenheim Laboratories on Princeton's Forrestal Campus until 1973, when the research moved to the main campus to involve more undergraduates and to advance the newly established Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, which Irv directed until 1979.
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From page 131...
... Through these fuel studies, he contributed substantially to fire safety, elucidating the phenomena controlling flame spread over solids and over fuel spills and through stratified fuel vapor/air mixtures and pool fires. His work on sooting in premixed and diffusion flames, especially for aromatics, significantly enhanced characterization of fuel properties related to radiative transfer in gas turbine combustors and emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and soot from combustion systems.
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From page 132...
... Professor Glassman was recognized by the Combustion Institute as an inaugural fellow "for pioneering studies on the chemical kinetics of combustion systems with a particular emphasis on a­ romatics and soot," and in 1982 he received the institute's Egerton Gold Medal "for distinguished, continuing, and encouraging contributions to the field of combustion." In other recognition of his extraordinary contributions to education and research, he received the 1984 Ralph Coats Roe Award from the American Society for Engineering Education; was elected to the NAE in 1996; and was a fellow and 2018 Daniel Guggenheim Medalist of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (one of the greatest honors for a lifetime of contributions to aeronautics)
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... Through his interest in others, kindness, and positive outlook, Irv became not only a teacher but a lifelong mentor to many of his academic "children." In 1972 he instituted the tradi­tion of a biennial Princeton reunion at the International Combustion Symposia, which continues to this day. The strong influence of the Princeton family in the combustion community and his numerous and wide-ranging scholarly contributions define the professional legacy of Professor Irvin Glassman.
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