Yeram Sarkis Touloukian

Yeram Sarkis Touloukian (1920-1981) was an American thermophysics specialist.

Life

Yeram Sarkis Touloukian was born on December 28, 1920 in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey in 1939. Following then went to the United States and received his master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941 and his PhD from Purdue University, Indiana in 1946. He then joined the faculty of Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering.

Touloukian was also Visiting professor thermodynamics, Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, 1963-1981. He died on June 12, 1981 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Contributions

Thermophysical Properties Research Center

In 1957 Touloukian established the Thermophysical Properties Research Center (TPRC) at Purdure. Four other centers were added and TCRP was restructured on 1974 to become the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS).

Consultant to major industrial companies and US Government Director OEA; Director, Center of Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis. He was co-author and editor of Thermophysical Properties of Matter (TPRC Data Series, 13 volumes, 1970-1981). He was interested in heat transfer, convection, conduction, radiation, thermophysics, and information science.

Offices

Touloukian held numerous advisory and editorial offices, e.g.,

International CODATA/ICSU Task Group on Thermophysical Properties, Chairman, 1972-1978.

Awards

Associatione Termotecnica Italiana. Gold Medal, 1968.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Heat Transfer Memorial Award, 1974.
The International Thermal Conductivity Conference Award, 1977.
International Thermophysics Congress. Posthumous award, 1981.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Associate fellow.

Papers

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