Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Bernard Howard Lavenda (born September 18, 1945) was a professor of chemical physics at the University of Camerino, now retired. He is an expert on irreversible thermodynamics who has contributed to many areas of physics, including that of Brownian motion, and in the establishment of the statistical basis of thermodynamics, and non-Euclidean geometrical theories of relativity. He was the scientific coordinator of the "European Thermodynamics Network" in the European Commission Program of Human Capital and Mobility. He was also a proponent for the establishment of, and scientific director of, a National (Italian) Centre for Thermodynamics, and has acted as scientific consultant to companies such as the ENI Group, where he helped to found TEMA, a consulting firm for SNAM Progetti, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), and the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. He has had over 130 scientific papers published in international journals, some critical of the new fashions and modes in theoretical physics.Professor Lavenda currently lives in Trevignano Romano near Rome, is married with two adult children and two grand-children, for whom his textbook "A New Perspective on Thermodynamics" is dedicated."@en }
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- Bernard_H._Lavenda abstract "Bernard Howard Lavenda (born September 18, 1945) was a professor of chemical physics at the University of Camerino, now retired. He is an expert on irreversible thermodynamics who has contributed to many areas of physics, including that of Brownian motion, and in the establishment of the statistical basis of thermodynamics, and non-Euclidean geometrical theories of relativity. He was the scientific coordinator of the "European Thermodynamics Network" in the European Commission Program of Human Capital and Mobility. He was also a proponent for the establishment of, and scientific director of, a National (Italian) Centre for Thermodynamics, and has acted as scientific consultant to companies such as the ENI Group, where he helped to found TEMA, a consulting firm for SNAM Progetti, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), and the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. He has had over 130 scientific papers published in international journals, some critical of the new fashions and modes in theoretical physics.Professor Lavenda currently lives in Trevignano Romano near Rome, is married with two adult children and two grand-children, for whom his textbook "A New Perspective on Thermodynamics" is dedicated.".