Edward A. Guggenheim

Edward Armand Guggenheim FRS

Life Guggenheim was born in Manchester 11 August 1901, the son of Armand Guggenheim and Marguerite Bertha Simon. His father was Swiss of Jewish origin, a naturalised British citizen. Guggenheim married Simone Ganzin (died 1954), in 1934 and Ruth Helen Aitkin, born Clarke, widow, in 1955. They had no children. He died in Reading, Berkshire 9 August 1970.

Other books included Statistical Thermodynamics with Ralph Fowler (1939), and Thermodynamics – an Advanced Treatment for Chemists and Physicists . In the preface to this book, he states that no thermodynamics book written before 1929 even attempts an account of any of the following matters:

The modern definition of heat given by Max Born in 1921. The quantal theory of the entropy of gases and its experimental verification. Peter Debye's formulae for the activity coefficients of electrolytes. The use of electrochemical potentials of ions The application of thermodynamics to dielectrics and to paramagnetic substances.

Honours and awards Guggenheim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946.

In 1972, the E. A. Guggenheim Memorial Fund was established by friends and colleagues. The income from the fund is used to (a) award an annual prize and (b) to provide a biennial or triennial memorial lecture on some topic of chemistry or physics appropriate to the interests of Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim Medal was introduced in 2014 by the Institution of Chemical Engineers for significant contributions to research in thermodynamics and / or complex fluids. The first recipient (in 2015) was Professor George Jackson of Imperial College London.