Howard Brenner (16 March 1929 – 17 February 2014) was a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] His first textbook, Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics (with Happel; Prentice-Hall, 1965), earned him a reputation lasting several decades.
[2] His profession though fundamental research is on microfluidics, complex liquids, interfacial transport process, emulsion rheology, and multiphase flows.
[3] [4] Brenner earned his bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute (1950), and his master's (1954) and DEngSc (1957) from New York University, both in chemical engineering.
He received the 2001 Fluid Dynamics Prize from the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society,[5] the 1980 Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology and the Warren K. Lewis Award (1999) from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.