Robert C. Armstrong
Robert Armstrong | |
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| Born | Robert Calvin Armstrong |
| Alma mater | Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973; B.ChE., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1970 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Rheology |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Obtaining constitutive equations for macro-molecular fluids from molecular theories (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Byron Bird |
| Doctoral students | Gareth H. McKinley |
| Website | energy |
Robert Calvin Armstrong is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973, and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Armstrong finished a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, also in Chemical Engineering.