Dr. Tibor Z. Harmathy was a pioneer and one of the founding fathers of contemporary fire safety engineering. In 1959, he joined the expanding Fire Research Section of the Division of Building Research (National Research Council of Canada—NRC) as a Research Officer. In his active career lasting nearly 30 years at the NRC, Tibor Harmathy authored well over 100 technical fire 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 first year of publication include his 1965 classic, Ten Rules of Fire Endurance Rating [1], which is still used today by code officials 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 Obituary
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T. Z. Harmathy,et al.
A new look at compartment fires, part II
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1972
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Fire Safety: Science and Engineering
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1985
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Fire drainage system
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1987
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Design of buildings for fire safety -- 1
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1979
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T. Harmathy.
Simultaneous Moisture and Heat Transfer in Porous Systems with Particular Reference to Drying
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1969
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T. Z. Harmathy.
Simplified Model of Smoke Dispersion in Buildings by Stack Effect
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1998
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T. Z. Harmathy.
Ten rules of fire endurance rating
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1965
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T. Z. Harmathy,et al.
Fire risk assessment
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1982
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