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Fire Technology, 51, 10191021, 2015 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York. Manufactured in The United States
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-015-0472-3
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John Gales*, Carleton University, 3432 Mackenzie, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, USA
Dr. Tibor Z. Harmathy was a pioneer and one of the founding fathers of contemporary re safety engineering. In 1959, he joined the expanding Fire Research Section of the Division of Building Research (National Research Council of CanadaNRC) as a Research Ocer. In his active career lasting nearly 30 years at the NRC, Tibor Harmathy authored well over 100 technical re science related publications, several books, and numerous patents as well as editing many special publications, manuscript articles and conference proceedings.
Tibor was an active reviewer, contributor and editorial board member to our journal, Fire Technology. His contributions to the journal in its rst year of publication include his 1965 classic, Ten Rules of Fire Endurance Rating [1], which is still used today by code ocials for subjective evaluation of equivalency and performance designs. Over the next several decades Tibor had contributed well over a dozen articles to the journal Fire Technology including his well-regarded two part paper on, A New Look at Compartment Fires in 1972 [2, 3]. His last contribution
* Correspondence should be addressed to: John Gales, E-mail: [email protected]
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Tibor Z. Harmathy
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being Simplied Model of Smoke Dispersion in Buildings by Stack Eect published in 1998 [4].
Tibor was fundamental in promoting re sciences internationally...