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Kit L. Yam (born 1951 in New York, New York) is a chemical engineer and materials scientist. He is currently a faculty member at Rutgers University, specializing in food sciences and chemical packaging. He is best known for his correction to the Stokes-Einstein equation, typically used to analyze diffusion processes involving polymers, to include local viscosity. This equation accounts for the order of magnitude deviations observed in the Stokes-Einstein equation analyses of biological functions. Yam's expanded equation is commonly used for the accurate prediction of experimental diffusion data for polymer solutions.