In thermodynamics, Ted A. Erikson (c. 1928-) is an American chemical engineer noted for his thermodynamics publications and experiments on the forced vaporization of water. [1] Erikson is currently a researcher at the Institute of Human Thermodynamics focused on the relationships between mass, energy, body size, and lifetimes of structures, both living and non-living, in attempts to synthesize a unified theory of growth valid from particles the size of the electron to particles the size of the human (human particle).

Education
Erikson completed his BS in chemical engineering and in 1959 his MS in chemistry on “Steady-State Thermodynamics”, focused on the forced vaporization of water based on experiments, under American physical chemist Ralph Tykodi, at the at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Erikson went on to work for twenty years in the research and development department of the Armour Research Foundation, a subdivision of ITT, and later worked as a high school chemistry-physics-mathematics teacher for a period of twenty years.

References
1. (a) Tykodi, Ralph J. (1967). Thermodynamics of Steady State, (pgs. 15, 29, 57). MacMillan.
(b) Tykodi, Ralph J. (2002). Thermodynamics of Systems in Nonequilibrium States (xix, 210, 224, 252, 436). USA: Thinkers' Press.
(c) Erikson, Ted A. (1960). “Title”, J. Phys. Chem., Vol. (64): 820. (d) Tykoid, Ralph J. (1959). “Title”, J. Chem. Phys. Vol. (31):1521.
(e) Erikson, Ted A. (1959). “Steady-State Thermodynamics: on the Forced Vaporization of Water”, MS Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology.
(f) Erikson, Ted A. (1965). “Title”, J. Phys. Chem., Vol. (69): 1809.

External links
● Ted Erikson (publications) – Scribd.com.
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