Raymond Viskanta
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Professor Raymond Viskanta (16 July 1931 – 27 December 2021[1]) was the W. F. M. Goss Professor of Engineering at Purdue University. His field of study encompassed a range of topics in convection and radiation heat transfer.
Viskanta was born in
Viskanta eventually moved to Chicago, where he worked in a factory and attended evening high school. He received his diploma in 1951, and enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Illinois at Navy Pier. He received his bachelor's degree in 1955 and he completed his master's degree at Purdue University in 1956.
He worked as a mechanical engineer at
Viskanta published over 540 publications in 50 different journals in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. He was listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the