{{short description|American engineer (born 1960)}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Howard A. Stone |birth_date = {{b-da|January 19, 1960}} |image = Howard Stone 0211 - MicroTAS 2007.jpg |caption = Howard A. Stone at the MicroTAS Conference, Paris, Oct. 2007. |fields = Fluid dynamics,<br>Mechanical engineering |workplaces = Princeton University,<br>Harvard University |alma_mater = University of California at Davis, California Institute of Technology |doctoral_advisor = L. Gary Leal }}
'''Howard Alvin Stone''' ForMemRS<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Howard Stone ForMemRS |url=https://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/people/howard-stone-10633/ |access-date=2025-06-17}}</ref> (born January 19, 1960) is the Neil A. Omenn '68 University Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His field of research is in fluid mechanics, chemical engineering and complex fluids.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stone {{!}} Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering|url=https://mae.princeton.edu/people/faculty/stone|website=mae.princeton.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}</ref> He became an Editor of the ''Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics'' in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Current Editorial Committee |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?0000,fluid |website=Annual Reviews |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
==Career==
Stone completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Davis and earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology under the direction of L. Gary Leal. He joined Princeton in 2009 after twenty years of professorship at the school of engineering at Harvard University, and after spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University.<ref name="Faculty page">{{cite web|title=H.A. Stone|url=https://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/stone/|website=Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> His research has been concerned with a variety of fundamental problems in fluid motions dominated by viscosity,<ref name="Viscosity Review">{{cite journal|last1=Stone|first1=H.A.|title=Dynamics of Drop Deformation and Breakup in Viscous Fluids|journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics|date=1994|volume=26|pages=65–102|doi=10.1146/annurev.fl.26.010194.000433|bibcode = 1994AnRFM..26...65S }}</ref> so-called low Reynolds number flows, and has frequently featured a combination of theory, computer simulation and modeling, and experiments to provide a quantitative understanding of the flow phenomenon under investigation.
==Research contributions==
Stone's studies have been directed toward heat transfer and mass transfer problems involving convection, diffusion and surface reactions.<ref name=Interface>{{cite journal|last1=Feng|first1=Jie|last2=Matthieu|first2=Roche|last3=Vigolo|first3=Daniele|last4=Arnaudov|first4=Luben|last5=Stoyanov|first5=Simeon|last6=Gurkov|first6=Theodor|last7=Tsutsumanova|first7=Gichka|last8=Stone|first8=Howard A.|title=Nanoemulsions obtained via bubble-bursting at a compound interface|journal=Nature Physics|date=2014|volume=10|issue=8|pages=606–612|doi=10.1038/nphys3003|arxiv = 1312.3369 |bibcode = 2014NatPh..10..606F |s2cid=1039138}}</ref> He has made contributions to a wide range of problems involving effects of surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation, and surfactants. He has also studied problems concerning the flow of lipid bilayers and monolayers, and has investigated the motions of particles suspended in such interfacial layers. His research on surfactants has important implications for the dispersal of hydrocarbon pollution in aquatic environments.<ref name=Interface /> Recent research has extended his study of fluid dynamics and flow within microchannels to biological applications as well.<ref name=pathogens>{{cite journal|last1=Siryaporn|first1=Albert|last2=Kim|first2=Minyoung Kevin|last3=Shen|first3=Yi|last4=Stone|first4=Howard A.|last5=Gitai|first5=Zemer|title=Colonization, Competition, and Dispersal of Pathogens in Fluid Flow Networks|journal=Current Biology|date=2015|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.074|volume=25|issue=9|pages=1201–1207|pmid=25843031|pmc=4422760|bibcode=2015BpJ...108R.599K}}</ref> In 2016 he published 54 papers in first class journals.
==Honors and awards==
Stone is also committed to undergraduate education and [https://www.princeton.edu/engineering/video/player/?id=5424 outreach to the general public]. In 1994 he received both the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Award and the Phi Beta Kappa teaching Prize, which are the only two teaching awards given to faculty in Harvard College. In 2000 he was named a Harvard College Professor for his contributions to undergraduate education. Currently he also serves as an Academic Athletic Fellow for the Princeton University women's basketball team.<ref name=Tigers>{{cite web|title=Howard Stone Academic Athletic Fellow|url=http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10600&ATCLID=205681153|website=Princeton Tigers Women's Basketball Program|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421072527/http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10600&ATCLID=205681153|archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003.<ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2003&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=APS|access-date=17 September 2020}} </ref>
He was the first recipient of the most prestigious fluid mechanics prize, the Batchelor Prize 2008, for best research in fluid mechanics in the last ten years.
Stone was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Howard A. Stone|url=https://nae.edu/30163/Dr-Howard-A-Stone|website=NAE Website|access-date=2020-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Howard A. Stone|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/howard-stone|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Howard Stone|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2536392.html|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2020-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2022 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 }}</ref> and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (elected 2022).<ref name=":0" />
In 2016, he was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize by the American Physical Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/fluid.cfm|title=Fluid Dynamics Prize|publisher= American Physical Society|access-date= 7 December 2016}}</ref>
==Notable papers== *{{cite journal | last1 = Stone | first1 = H. A. | year = 1994 | title = Dynamics of Drop Deformation and Breakup in Viscous Fluids | journal = Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | volume = 26 | pages = 65–102 | doi=10.1146/annurev.fl.26.010194.000433 | bibcode=1994AnRFM..26...65S}} *{{cite journal | last1 = Stone | first1 = H. A. | last2 = Stroock | first2 = A. D. | last3 = Ajdari | first3 = A. | year = 2004 | title = ENGINEERING FLOWS IN SMALL DEVICES, Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip | journal = Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | volume = 36 | pages = 381–411 | doi=10.1146/annurev.fluid.36.050802.122124 | bibcode = 2004AnRFM..36..381S }} *{{cite journal | last1 = Stone | first1 = H. A. | last2 = Leal | first2 = L. G. | year = 1989 | title = Relaxation and Breakup of an Initially Extended Drop in an Otherwise Quiescent Fluid | journal = J. Fluid Mech. | volume = 198 | pages = 399–427 | doi=10.1017/s0022112089000194| bibcode = 1989JFM...198..399S | s2cid = 2882373 | url = https://authors.library.caltech.edu/31527/1/STOjfm89.pdf }}
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==External links== {{commons|Howard A. Stone}} * [https://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/stone/ Stone's Princeton MAE webpage] * [https://www.princeton.edu/cbe/people/faculty/stone/ Stone's Princeton CBE webpage] * [https://stonelab.princeton.edu/ Princeton Complex Fluids Group] * [https://www.princeton.edu/pccmeducation/public/holiday-science-lecture/ Holiday Science Lecture by Howard Stone] * {{MathGenealogy|id=92044}}
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