Robert Byron Bird, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robert Byron Bird

American chemist

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1924

Place of Birth: Bryan, Texas, United States

Profession: engineer, physicist, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Robert Byron Bird (born February 5, 1924 in Bryan, Texas) is a chemical engineer and professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is known for his research in transport phenomena of non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory, and rheology.
He, along with Warren E.
Stewart and Edwin N.
Lightfoot, is an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena.
Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987.