Solvay Colloquium

Andrew Delano (Boulder & Hewlett-Packard USA)

Title: THE EINSTEIN-SZILARD REFRIGERATOR: HISTORY, THEORY & PROTOTYPE

Abstract: While in Berlin in the 1920's, Albert Einstein and one of his former student, Leo Szilard, invented and patented a number of cooling systems that required no moving parts and used only heat as an input.  Dr. Delano will present the history, the theory and his own prototype of the so-called "Einstein refrigerator".
See also http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/sum98/einsrefr.html

Forum B - ULB - Campus Plaine
December 13, 2005 at 4:00 pm

Co-organized with the Physics Departments of the ULB and the VUB.