**Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics**

Special Issue Editors

**R ´obert Kov´acs Antonio M. Scarfone Sumiyoshi Abe**

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*Special Issue Editors* Robert Kov ´ acs ´ Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary

Antonio M. Scarfone Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISC-CNR) Italy

Sumiyoshi Abe Huaqiao University China

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Prof. József Verhás, D.Sc. (1939–2020)

The present Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of our beloved, respected friend, colleague and teacher, the late Professor József Verhas.

Prof. Verhás played a pioneering role in establishing and strengthening the Hungarian tradition of thermodynamics.

He was active both scientifically and socially, having membership in the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, the János Bolyai Mathematical Society, the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, and in the Editorial Advisory Board of *Journal of NonȬEquilibrium Thermodynamics*. He was also a member of the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti.

Prof. Verhás was a master of irreversible thermodynamics with extremely broad interests and knowledge. He contributed to the progress of the variational principles of irreversible thermodynamics and wave theory of thermodynamics, and introduced the concept of dynamic degrees of freedom and developed the nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory of liquid crystals.

He also worked on the theory of cellular division, turbulence, plasticity, and in many other applications and areas of irreversible thermodynamics.ȱ ȱ

The KluitenbergȬVerhás body and the rheological Verhás element bear his name, in honor of his work in elaborating the thermodynamic basis of rheology.
