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Frank Kreith (15 December 1922 – 8 January 2018)[1] was an American mechanical engineer.
Born inVienna, Kreith fledAustria after theannexation of Austria intoNazi Germany in 1938 as a member of theKindertransport.[2][3] He obtained degrees from theUniversity of California, Berkeley (1945), theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (1949) and theUniversity of Paris (1965).[1] Kreith worked at theJet Propulsion Laboratory, received a fellowship from theDaniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation to study atPrinceton University[4] and taught at Berkeley andLehigh University before becoming a faculty member atUniversity of Colorado Boulder in 1959. He was head of the Solar Thermal Conversion research branch at theSolar Energy Research Institute (SERI) and subsequently served as the ASME Legislative Fellow at theNational Conference of State Legislators, advising lawmakers on energy and environmental issues.[1][2] Kreith published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored or edited 15 books (among them the seminal textbookPrinciples of Heat Transfer),[2] and was theJournal of Solar Energy Engineering's editor-in-chief from 1980 to 1987.[1]
