{{Short description|American chemical engineering professor}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Howard Brenner |birth_date = {{birth date|1929|3|16|df=y}} |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|2|17|1929|3|16|df=y}} |image = |caption = |fields = Chemical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics |workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology |alma_mater = Pratt Institute, New York University }}

'''Howard Brenner''' (16 March 1929 – 17 February 2014) was a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research profoundly influenced the field of fluid dynamics, and his research contribution to fundamental principles of fluid dynamics has been deeply honored.<ref name="AICHE">{{cite web|title=Memorial Session in Honor of Howard Brenner (Invited Talks)|url=https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2014/webprogram/Session28260.html|website=AICHE|publisher=}}</ref> His first textbook, Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics (with Happel; Prentice-Hall, 1965), earned him a reputation lasting several decades.<ref name=book>{{cite book|last1=Happel|first1=John|last2=Brenner|first2=Howard|title=Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|series= Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes |volume=1|date=1983|doi=10.1007/978-94-009-8352-6 |isbn=978-94-009-8352-6}}</ref> His profession though fundamental research is on microfluidics, complex liquids, interfacial transport process, emulsion rheology, and multiphase flows.<ref name="Faculty news">{{cite web|title=Howard Brenner, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, passes away at 84|url=https://news.mit.edu/2014/howard-brenner-professor-emeritus-of-chemical-engineering-passes-away-at-84|website=MIT news|date=25 February 2014 |publisher=MIT PRESS|access-date=February 25, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Faculty ChemE news">{{cite web|title=Howard Brenner, professor emeritus of chemical engineering|url=http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/2014/hbrenner.html|website=MIT ChemE news|publisher=MIT PRESS}}</ref>

==Career== Brenner earned his bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute (1950), and his master's (1954) and DEngSc (1957) from New York University, both in chemical engineering. He has served on the chemical engineering faculties of New York University (1955–1966), Carnegie Mellon University (1966–1977), University of Rochester (1977–1981, department chair), and MIT (1981–2005). Since 1981, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (William Henry Dow Professor). He was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Caltech (Fairchild Scholar 1975/76, Chevron Visiting Professor 1988/89), and Technion (Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering 1996).

==Honors and awards== He received the 2001 Fluid Dynamics Prize from the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society,<ref name="Fluid Dynamics Prize-APS">{{cite web|title=Howard Brenner, 2001 Fluid Dynamics Prize Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Howard&last_nm=Brenner&year=2001|website=APS Physics|publisher=}}</ref> the 1980 Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology and the Warren K. Lewis Award (1999) from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1980)<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Howard Brenner |url=https://www.nae.edu/29651/Professor-Howard-Brenner |website=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=11 April 2026 }}</ref> and National Academy of Sciences (2000).<ref name="NAE">{{cite web|title=Howard Brenner, National Academy of Sciences |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/57416.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/|website=NAS|publisher=}}</ref> He was elected as the fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999),<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard Brenner |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/howard-brenner |website=American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences |access-date=11 April 2026 }}</ref> the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154713/https://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?brennerh AIP|History Center] * [http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/hbrenner@mit.edu/facultypub.html Howard Brenner-selected publications from MIT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116021939/http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/hbrenner@mit.edu/facultypub.html |date=2014-11-16 }} * [https://www.nap.edu/read/21785/chapter/7 Memorial Tributes: Volume 19 (2015) Chapter: HOWARD BRENNER]

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