Harold Leo Friedman (born 24 March 1923 in

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; died 16 September 2005 in Stony Brook,

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) was an American

physical chemist Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical me ...

who contributed to the study of thermodynamic properties of fluids with applications in oceanography and physiology. He received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Southern California and worked for I.B.M.'s research center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y before moving to teach at

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in 1965. He was chairman of Stony Brook's chemistry department during the 1970s, retiring as a professor emeritus in 1994. In 1987 he was elected a

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''"for pioneering work in the theory of the statistical mechanics of ionic solutions and in the application of the theory of experimental observables"''. In 1988, he was awarded the Robinson Medal of the

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's Faraday Division.

Works

* ''Ionic Solution Theory'', ,1962 * ''A Course In Statistical Mechanics'', , 1988

External links

Stony Brook Chemistry page

* ttp://scitation.aip.org/search?value1=harold+friedman&option1=all&option12=resultCategory&value12=ResearchPublicationContent Journal articles

References

20th-century American chemists 1923 births 2005 deaths People from Manhattan University of Chicago alumni Stony Brook University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society {{chemist-stub