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Jeffrey M. Gordon Born 1949, USA, Nationality: Israeli Current
position: Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Energy
& Environmental Physics, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel and Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Beersheva Campus, Israel Ph.D., Brown University, 1976
Author of over 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals in the areas
of: the engineering and physics of cooling systems, finite-time thermodynamics,
nonimaging optics, biomedical optics, and solar energy. Associate editor of
Solar Energy; editor of the International Solar Energy Society Background
Papers Series, and former associate editor of ASME J. of Solar Energy Eng.,
Progress in Photovoltaics and Advances in Thermodynamics. Member of the board
of reviewers of over a dozen additional leading journals, including Journal of
Applied Physics, American Journal of Physics, International Journal of Heat and
Mass Transfer, Applied Optics, Solar Energy Materials, and Journal of the
Optical Society of America
Kim Choon Ng Born 1952, Malaysia,
Nationality: Singaporean Current position: Associate Professor, National
University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical & Production Engineering,
Singapore Ph.D. 1980, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Author of over
40 papers in international peer-reviewed journals in the areas of: solar
energy, chiller modeling and experimental testing, and two-phase flow. Member
of the board of reviewers of International Journal of Refrigeration, Solar
Energy, Heat Transfer Engineering and Applied Thermal Engineering. Chartered
Engineer (UK) and a registered Professional Engineer (PEng) in
Singapore.
In the specific area of this book, Gordon and Ng have
co-authored 13 papers in the following journals during the years 1994-2000:
Journal of Applied Physics, International Journal of Refrigeration, Applied
Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Solar
Energy. Separately, they have authored more than two dozen additional articles
on cooling systems, heat engines and chemical converters in leading journals.
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