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Gyftopoulos, Elias Panayiotis was born on July 4, 1927 in Athens, Greece. Came to the United States, 1953, naturalized, 1963. Son of Panayiotis Elias and Despina (Louvaris) Gyftopoulos.
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Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this authoritative milestone in the foundational development of thermodynamics provides a unique reference for all physicists and engineers. Basic concepts and applications are discussed in complete detail with attention to generality and logical consistency, removing ambiguities and limitations of traditional presentations. Worked-out examples and end-of-chapter problems illustrate the use of energy and entropy balances as powerful analytical keystones in physics and engineering. The text provides material for undergraduate and graduate courses. At the introductory level, it covers heat engines, stable-equilibrium-state models for ideal-gas, incompressible-fluid and solid behaviors, heat, work and bulk-flow interactions, thermodynamic efficiency, energy conversion systems, energy, and availability/ At the intermediate level, it covers ideal and nonideal mixtures, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, and combustion. At the advanced level, the unique non-traditional order of exposition of the basic concepts and principles (system, property, state, process, first law, energy, equilibrium, stable equilibrium, second law, entropy) allows rigorous general definitions of energy and entropy valid for all systems (large and small, few- and many- particles) and all states (stable and non-stable equilibrium, as well as non-equilibrium). In particular, entropy is defined before and independently of the definitions of temperature and heat, and of the simple-system model for many-particle systems.
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Gyftopoulos, Elias Panayiotis was born on July 4, 1927 in Athens, Greece. Came to the United States, 1953, naturalized, 1963. Son of Panayiotis Elias and Despina (Louvaris) Gyftopoulos.
Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Technology University Athens, 1953. Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958. Doctor (honorary), Technology University Athens, Greece, 1992.
Doctor (honorary), Technology University Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, 1997. Doctor (honorary), Dalhousie University Polytechnic, Halifax, Canada, 1997. Doctor (honorary), University Patras, Greece, 2001.
Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1955-1958; assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1958-1961; associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1961-1964; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1964-1970; Ford professor engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1970-1996; chairman, National Energy Council Greece, 1975-1978. Board directors Thermo Electron Corporation, Waltham, Thermo Voltek, Woburn, Massachusetts, Thermo Remediation Corporation, Apopka, Florida, TermoLase Corporation, San Diego, ThermoCardio Systems, Woburn, Thermo Spectra Corporation, Waltham, ThermoLyte Corporation, Waltham, Trex Medical Corporation, others. Consultant to various United States corporations.
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Trustee Anatolia College, Salonika, Greece, 1971-2001. Vice chairman board trustees, 1988-2001. With Greek Navy, 1948-1951.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (James Harry Potter Gold medal 1995, Robert Henry Thurston award 2002, Edward Obert award 2001), National Academy of Engineering, Academy Athens, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Nuclear Society (board directors 1966-1969). Member: Philological Society Parnassos.
Married Artemis S. Scalleri, September 3, 1962. Children: Vasso, Maro, Rena.