Julian Szekely | |
Birth Date: | November 23, 1934 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Death Place: | Weston, Massachusetts |
Nationality: | Hungarian, American |
Fields: | Materials science & engineering |
Workplaces: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University at Buffalo Imperial College London |
Alma Mater: | Imperial College London |
Doctoral Advisor: | John Francis Richardson |
Awards: | Beilby Medal and Prize (1973) Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) |
Julian Szekely (November 23, 1934 – December 7, 1995) was a Hungarian-American chemical engineer and materials scientist. He was a professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Szekely received both his BSc (1959) and PhD (1961) in chemical engineering from Imperial College London. He moved to the United States in 1966, becoming a US citizen in 1972.