Paul H Steen was an engineer and scientist. He held the Maxwell M. Upson Chair in Engineering at Cornell University. Steen received degrees in engineering and English literature from Brown University, his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
Steen’s primary area of focus was in the dynamical stability of fluid systems. A team led by Steen discovered a new periodic table classification of droplet motions.Steen, PH, CT Chang and JB Bostwick, (2019) “Droplet motions fill a periodic table,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817065116Lefkowitz, Melanie. "A new periodic table classifies droplet motions" https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/02/new-periodic-table-classifies-droplet-motions4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 24 (Discovery 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n2LoJIoA0&feature=youtu.be Steen co-invented a switchable adhesion deviceTech Briefs. "Here's an Idea: Engineering Real-Life 'Superpowers'" https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/webcasts/podcasts/32382 and introduced the Bessemer-meets-Gutenberg innovation to the rapid solidification processing of metallic alloys by planar-flow spin casting.US Patent 7,306,025 (2007), “Methods for continuous casting of a molten material” https://patents.google.com/patent/US7306025B2/enUS Patent 7,082,986 (2006), “System & method for continuous casting of a molten material” https://patents.google.com/patent/US7082986 He received awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Henry Marion Howe Medal and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society"APS Fellows Directory" https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
At the time of his death, he served as an associate editor of the Nature journal npj Microgravity. From 2000 to 2012, he was associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Steen died unexpectedly in Vermont on September 4, 2020.
External links Faculty Page at Cornell University
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