The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Eli Ruckenstein
Title:
Distinguished Professor
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo
School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department of Chemical Engineering
Buffalo,New York 14260 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2020
Award Discipline:
Engineering
Award Year:
1998
Citation:
"For his pioneering theories of the thermodynamics of microemulsions, hydrodynamics of thin films, interfacial phenomena, nucleation, scaling of transport phenomena, and for imaginative technological and experimental achievements in the areas of catalysis polymer composites, metal-support interactions, and protein separation."
Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton at a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999.