# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-byron-bird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:30.727Z

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name: "Robert Byron Bird"
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description: "Robert Byron Bird was an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was known for his research in transport phenomena of non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory, and rheology. He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, was an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987."
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birthDate: "1924-02-05"
deathDate: "2020-11-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump