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| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
| Education | MIT (1971, 1972, 1975) |
| Occupation | Distinguished Professor at Duke University |
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Adrian Bejan is a Romanian-American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed his constructal law. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University[1][2] and author of the books Design in Nature,[3] The Physics of Life [4], Freedom and Evolution [5] and Time And Beauty.[6] He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal.
- ^ Livni, Ephrat (23 September 2017). "Everything, including the growing income disparity, can be explained by physics". Quartz. Quartz Media LLC. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
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Duke webpagewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bejan, Adrian (2013). Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization. J. Peder Zane. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-307-74434-0. OCLC 788289357.
- ^ Bejan, Adrian (24 May 2016). The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250078827. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ Bejan, Adrian (2020). Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-34008-7.
- ^ Bejan, Adrian (2022). Time and beauty : why time flies and beauty never dies. New Jersey. ISBN 978-981-12-4547-3. OCLC 1302102371.
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