In existographies, Melvin E. Klegerman (c.1947-) (HFE:16) is an American immunochemist, noted for []
Overview
In 1976, Klegerman, aged 29, with Hugh J. McDonald (1913-2006), aged 63, noted for his work in corrosion chemistry thermodynamics (Ѻ) and then head of the biochemistry department of the Loyola University of Chicago (Ѻ), in their “The Thermodynamics of War” article (see: war thermodynamics), published in the American Laboratory journal, attempted to ferret out the beginnings of an instrument-based quantitative social thermodynamics, which they apply to the phenomena of war; a few snippets of which are as follows: [1]
They define (Ѻ) the main thermodynamic variables (see: human thermodynamics variables table) as follows:
G is the capacity of a system to do useful work.
H is the resources available to a system.
S represents the entropy, disorder, freedom, or randomness.
Here, of note, we see them making a reference (Ѻ) to Bruce Lindsay’s “thermodynamic imperative”, conjoined with citation to Albert Lehninger’s Bioenergetics and Gilbert Lewis’ Thermodynamics; and in which they seem to be attempting to quantify work done "by a social system" as being a quantified by a "negative ΔG", i.e. exergonic, and work done "on a social system" as being quantified by a "positive ΔG", i.e. endergonic.
Education
In 1969, Klegerman completed his BA in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1984 he completed ha PhD in biochemistry at Loyola University, Chicago, after which he spent about three decades working in the area of immunochemistry, immunoassay development, and conjugation chemistry; including work on thermodynamic coupling theory (Ѻ). [2]
References
1. Klegerman, Melvin E. and McDonald, Hugh J. (1976). “The Thermodynamics of War”, American Laboratory (abs, pg. 4; social variables, pg. 62; S, H, and S defined, pg. 62), 8:61-73.
2. Melvin Klegerman (about) – Med.UTH.edu.
External links
● Melvin E. Klegerman (publications) – uthealth.influuent.utsystem.edu.
