The 7th International Heat Pipe Conference was held on May 21-25, 1990 in Minsk, at the A.V. Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute Byelorussian Academy of Sciences. Such conferences have been organized and held since 1973 by the International Committee on Heat Pipes chaired by Dr. George Grover, the inventor of heat pipes. Since 1990 the chairman of this International Committee is Prof. Dr. Manfred Groll.
The 7th International Heat Pipes Conference was attended by more then 200 scientists and experts from 19 countries: 155 papers and 5 lectures were presented to the conference; an International Heat Pipes Exhibition was held during the conference. The International Heat Pipes Conferences have a long history of many years.