Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2018 Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2019. Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize (2019) Lifetime Achievement Award, IAGE (2021) Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award (2023) Selected publications Articles Bejan, Adrian "Entropy Generation Minimization: The New Thermodynamics of Finite-Size Devices and Finite-Time Processes," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 79, 1 February 1996, pp. 1191–1218. Bejan, Adrian (2000). Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature. Cambridge University Press. Book chapter Books , updated in 1995, 2004, and 2013: , updated in 1997, 2006, and 2016: , updated in 1999, 2006, 2017: Bejan, Adrian (2020). Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science. New York: Springer. . Bejan, Adrian (2022). Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies. World Scientific. . Bejan, Adrian (2022). Heat Transfer: Evolution, Design and Performance.'' Wiley. . References External links Faculty web page 1948 births Living people MIT School of Engineering alumni Duke University faculty People from Galați Romanian emigrants to the United States Romanian engineers Fluid dynamicists Thermodynamicists American mechanical engineers Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers