Obituary: Ernest S. Starkman 8 October 1919 – 13 January 1976
✍ Scribed by Robert F. Sawyer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-2180
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✦ Synopsis
in 1942 with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering and received his master of science degree in 1945. After employment with the Shell Oil Company, he joined the faculty of the University of California for a 21-year career, eleven of which were as a full professor. He served as a university-wide assistant vice president and executive director of Project Clean Air. In 1971 he left the university to become a vice president of the General Motors Corporation in charge of its Environmental Activities Staff. At the time of his death, he and his wife Marjory lived in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
He was the author of numerous technical papers on fuels, lubricants, combustion, automotive engines, and air pollution. He had received the SAC Homing and CoweU awards for his work in the field of engine combustion. He was best known as an authority on automotive exhaust emissions and their formation in combustion processes. During the early 1950's he worked with the pioneer photochemical smog researcher Arie Haagen-Smit and was one of the first automotive engine investigators to become