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John M. Prausnitz

John Michael Prausnitz is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Citations53,648Source-reported citations
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i10-index470Source-reported i10-index

Biography, research & contributions

John Michael Prausnitz is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Top Publications

  • Local compositions in thermodynamic excess functions for liquid mixtures (1968) - 6,811 citations
  • Statistical thermodynamics of liquid mixtures: A new expression for the excess Gibbs energy of partly or completely miscible systems (1975) - 4,701 citations
  • Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria (1969) - 3,933 citations
  • Thermodynamics of mixed‐gas adsorption (1965) - 3,817 citations
  • Group‐contribution estimation of activity coefficients in nonideal liquid mixtures (1975) - 3,341 citations

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Full name
John M. Prausnitz
ORCID
0000-0001-9458-0648
OpenAlex ID
https://openalex.org/A5020540558

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  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics, Thermodynamic properties of mixtures, Chemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions, Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions, Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials

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      John M. Prausnitz. JournalsWorld. Accessed October 8, 2026.

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