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The history of chemical engineering encompasses more than 100 years and hundreds of thousands of engineers. Many of the engineers who founded the profession and established the discipline in the first half of the 20th century remain “household names” in chemical engineering labs and industry. In 2008, AIChE’s Centennial Celebration Committee tipped its hat to a select few of these engineering heroes of the “Foundation Age” —prior to World War II.

Neal R. Amundson (1916–2011)
BS and MS in chemical engineering, PhD in mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota. Recognized for achievements as a pioneering chemical engineering educator; chair of the 1988 U.S. National Research Council report “Frontiers in Chemical Engineering.”

Leo Baekeland (1863–1944)
Recognized for achievements including the invention of Velox photographic paper and the discovered Bakelite. One of the founders of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Manson Benedict (1907–2006)
BS in chemistry, Cornell Univ.; PhD in physical chemistry, MIT. Recognized for leadership including: headed development of uranium U-235 gaseous diffusion plant; Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state for fluid dynamics.

William Burton (1865–1954)
BS, Western Reserve Univ.; PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ. Recognized for achievements including invention of petroleum thermal cracking.

Thomas H. Chilton (1899–1973)
Chemical engineering degree from Columbia Univ., 1922. Recognized for achievements including: outstanding research at DuPont; Chilton-Colburn analogy.

Karl P. Cohen ((1913–2012)
Recognized for leadership including: large-scale production of U-235; work with the General Electric Company's Nuclear Energy Group.

Allan P. Colburn (1904–1955)
PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for achievements as a pioneer of heat transfer and energy flow, including the Chilton-Colburn analogy.

W. Kenneth Davis (1918–2005)
BS and MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: head of reactor development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; VP, Bechtel Nuclear; Deputy Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Energy.

John V. N. Dorr (1872–1962)
Recognized for achievements including the invention of continuous process sedimentation and filtration equipment, which revolutionized solid-liquid separation.

Thomas B. Drew (1902–1985)
BS and MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: the first systematic use of heat, mass and momentum fundamentals in industrial applications; key contributor to Hanford isotope separation.

Harry G. Drickamer (1918–2002)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering physical/chemical studies of solids using high pressures; first to use infrared and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy at high pressure.

Merrell Fenske (1904–1971)
ScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: first head of Pennsylvania State Univ’s chemical engineering department; established petroleum engineering curriculum; namesake for Penn State’s elite petroleum refining laboratory.

Colin G. Fink (1881–1953)
Recognized for achievements including: development of ductile incandescent tungsten lamp filaments; insoluble copper anode; hot dipped aluminum coatings.

Edwin Gilliland (1909–1973)
BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS, Penn State; PhD, MIT — all in chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements including: director of synthetic rubber production during WWII; wetted-wall mass transfer; butadiene recovery; ion exchange; heterogeneous catalysis.

Vladimir Haensel (1914–2002)
BS and MS in chemical engineering, Northwestern Univ.; PhD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including cryogenic gas liquefaction and separation technology, especially for the production of liquefied natural gas.

Carroll A. Hochwalt (1899–1987)
Recognized for achievements including: work on highly toxic tetraethyl lead in large quantities; low sudsing washing machine detergent; vice president, Monsanto.

Hoyt C. Hottel (1903–1998)
BS in chemistry, Univ. of Indiana; MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: work in fuels and combustion; radiant-heat expert and early solar energy pioneer; built three solar houses.

George E. Holbrook (1909–1987)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, all from Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for leadership including: product development at DuPont; director of the Chemical, Rubber, and Forest Products Bureau at the National Production Authority (NPA); charter member of National Academy of Engineering.

Olaf A. Hougen (1893–1986)
Achievements recognized with five AIChE awards, the Esso Award of the American Chemical Society, the Lamme Gold Medal Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Donald L. Katz (1907–1989)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: work in petroleum and reservoir engineering; underground gas storage; heat-transfer phase behavior.

Chalmer G. Kirkbride (1907–1998)
Recognized for leadership in industrial and academic research; chairman of Houdry, Sun, Magnolia; author of 1947 first edition of “Chemical Engineering Fundamentals.”

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (1894–1973)
Recognized for leadership: editor-in-chief of “Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering;” Electrochemical Society president.

Mooson Kwauk (1920–2012)
BS, Univ. of Shanghai; MS, Princeton Univ. Recognized for leadership in fluidization, chemical reaction engineering and extractive metallurgy.

Ralph Landau (1916–2004)
PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for leadership and pioneering work: with ethylene oxide, terephthlalic acid, maleic anhydride, Oxirane, and acetic anhydride processes; founded Scientific Design/Halcon.

Warren K. Lewis (1882–1975)
Recognized for achievements including: co-author of “Principles of Chemical Engineering;” basis for quantitative unit operations calculations; pioneered fluidized beds leading to catalytic cracking.

Arthur D. Little (1863–1935)
Studied chemistry at MIT before the advent of chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements including: AIChE founder; coined the phrase “unit operations;” expertise in sulfite papermaking; famed company founder.

W. Robert Marshall (1916–1988)
BS in chemical engineering, Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology); PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for achievements including pioneering work in transport phenomena, boundary layer theory, transport phenomena and statistics, and the use of these to solve critical problems in spray processing.

Walter G. May (Born 1918)
BS and MS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Saskatchewan; ScD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: work in fluidization; high-energy propellants; liquefied natural-gas technology and centrifugal isotope separation theory and practice.

William H. McAdams
Recognized for achievements including: author of ‘Heat Transfer;” use of laminar boundary-layer theory.

Jerry McAfee (1916–1995)
ScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for leadership: in industrial research development; president of Gulf Oil.

Warren McCabe (1899–1982)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: McCabe-Thiele technique for analyzing distillation columns; author of “Elements of Chemical Engineering.”

John J. McKetta (Born 1915)
Chemical engineering graduate, Tri-State Univ. (now Trine Univ.); PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: “Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design;” energy conservation and environmental protection; service to the Institute.

Victor Mills (1897–1997)
Chemical engineering degree, Univ. of Washington. Recognized for achievements including: faster Ivory Soap manufacture; prevented Jif peanut butter separation; improved Duncan Hines cake mixes; invented Pampers.

Eger V. Murphree (1892–1962)
BS and MS in chemistry, Kentucky Univ. Recognized for achievements including: invention of fluid catalytic cracking; leader in developing synthetic toluene, fluid coking; Murphree plate efficiency. Formed and served as president of Exxon Research and Engineering.

Donald F. Othmer (1904–1995)
BS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Nebraska; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: the Othmer still; cellulose acetate and artificial silk fibers; RDX explosives; co-author of “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.”

Max Stone Peters (1920–2011)
BS and PhD, Penn State Univ. Recognized for achievements including plant design and economics for chemical engineers.

William G. Pfann (1917–1982)
Recognized for achievements including: increasing semiconductor purity; reduced metallic and semi-metallic dislocations from 3.5 million per cm² to near zero.

Robert L. Pigford (1917–1988)
BS in chemical engineering, Mississippi State Univ.; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Illinois. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering process models for absorption with reaction; cycling zone adsorption; sulfur dioxide by chemisorption.

Margaret H. Rousseau (1911–2000)
BS in chemical engineering, Rice Univ.; PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: design of first large penicillin plant; first American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering; first female AIChE member. AIChE Founders Award winner, 1983.

Eli Ruckenstein (Born 1926)
BS and PhD, Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering nucleation and growth kinetics; colloidal and emulsion stability impacts on material science. Recipient of the National Medal of Science.

J. Henry Rushton (1905–??)
Recognized for achievements including: pioneering fundamentals of mixing; Rushton mixing turbine; service to the Institute.

Samuel P. Sadtler (1847–1923)
Studied at Gettysburg College and Harvard Univ. Recognized for leadership including: co-founder and first president of AIChE, 1908–1909; expert in legal and forensic chemistry; founded Sadtler Research Laboratories.

Thomas K. Sherwood (1903–1976)
BS, McGill Univ; PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: research in mass transfer, particularly solids drying, absorption, extraction, packed-tower and bubble-cap distillation; Sherwood Number named in his honor.

Mott Souders, Jr. (1904–1974)
BS in chemical engineering, Montana State Univ; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for leadership including: work in mass transfer and extractive distillation processes; coined “K-value,” “stripping factor,” and “extractive distillation;” director of Shell Oil Development.

Ernest Thiele (1895–1993)
BS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS and PhD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: McCabe-Thiele method of analyzing distillation; Thiele modulus for catalyst effectiveness.

William Hultz Walker (1869–1934)
Recognized for achievements including: AIChE founder; instrumental in setting up the World War I chemical warfare program; organized chemical engineering at MIT; cellulose and silk manufacturing techniques.

Kenneth Watson (Born 1921)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering — all from Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for leadership including pioneering use of basic principles of mathematics, chemistry and physics in analysis of chemical processes.

James W. Westwater (1919–2006)
BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; PhD, Univ. of Delaware. Recognized for achievements including: heat transfer in boiling and condensation; pioneer of high-speed film studies.

Richard H. Wilhelm (1909–1968)
BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Columbia, Univ. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering work in fluidization; discovered “parametric pumping;” authority on chemical reaction engineering.

Charles R. Wilke (1917–2003)
BS, Univ. of Dayton; MS, Washington State Univ.; PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin — all in chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements in molecular diffusion; microbiological processes at Univ. of California, Berkeley.

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-Now in its second century, the chemical engineering profession has been shaped and sustained by the achievements, leadership and imagination of thousands of engineers. In 2008, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE’s) Centennial Celebration Committee recognizes a few “Modern Era” (post- World War II) chemical engineers — most of whom are still in practice and guiding the profession into the new century.
+The history of chemical engineering encompasses [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/26-3-the-first-century-of-chemical-engineering.aspx more than 100 years] and hundreds of thousands of engineers. Many of the engineers who founded the profession and established the discipline in the first half of the 20th century remain “household names” in chemical engineering labs and industry. In 2008, AIChE’s Centennial Celebration Committee tipped its hat to a select few of these engineering heroes of the “Foundation Age” —prior to World War II.
-'''Andreas Acrivos'''<br>Recognized for key suspension mechanics developments relevant to oil production and semiconductor manufacture. Recipient of U.S. National Medal of Science.
+----
-'''Kristi S. Anseth'''<br>Recognized for developing new materials to replace diseased or damaged body parts. Recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/amundson-neal-r.aspx Neal R. Amundson]''' (1916–2011)<br>BS and MS in chemical engineering, PhD in mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota. Recognized for achievements as a pioneering chemical engineering educator; chair of the 1988 U.S. National Research Council report “Frontiers in Chemical Engineering.”
-'''Frances H. Arnold'''<br>Recognized for research on engineering biological systems, particularly proteins and genetic regulatory networks (''e.g.'', using novel enzymes to catalyze cellulose hydrolysis). Elected to all three U.S. National Academies.<br>
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/petrochemistry-and-synthetic-polymers/synthetic-polymers/baekeland.aspx Leo Baekeland] '''(1863–1944)<br>Recognized for achievements including the invention of Velox photographic paper and the discovered [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/conflicts-in-chemistry/the-case-of-plastics/blog/material-of-a-thousand-uses.aspx Bakelite]. One of the founders of the [http://www.aiche.org American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)].
-'''Rutherford Aris''' (1929–2005)<br>Recognized for controlling reaction runaways; oscillating reactor studies of potentially explosive chemical processes.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/benedict-manson.aspx Manson Benedict]''' (1907–2006)<br>BS in chemistry, Cornell Univ.; PhD in physical chemistry, MIT. Recognized for leadership including: headed development of uranium U-235 gaseous diffusion plant; Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state for fluid dynamics.
-'''Albert L. Babb'''<br>Recognized for development of portable, fail-safe, single-patient dialysis machine; medical applications of nuclear energy. Elected to all three U.S. National Academies.
+'''William Burton''' (1865–1954)<br>BS, Western Reserve Univ.; PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ. Recognized for achievements including invention of petroleum thermal cracking.
-'''James E. Bailey '''(1944–2001)<br>Recognized as the father of modern bioprocess engineering.
+'''Thomas H. Chilton''' (1899–1973)<br>Chemical engineering degree from Columbia Univ., 1922. Recognized for achievements including: outstanding research at DuPont; Chilton-Colburn analogy. <br>
-'''Thomas Baron''' (1921–1985)<br>Recognized for leadership at Shell Emeryville — extractive technologies, basic chemical and engineering exploratory work, and process research and development.
+'''Karl P. Cohen '''((1913–2012)<br>Recognized for leadership including: large-scale production of U-235; work with the General Electric Company's Nuclear Energy Group.
-'''Mark Barteau'''<br>Recognized for work in surface science, metal and metal-oxide catalysis; surfaces and catalyst spectroscopic characterization; computational chemistry techniques.
+'''Allan P. Colburn''' (1904–1955)<br>PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for achievements as a pioneer of heat transfer and energy flow, including the Chilton-Colburn analogy.
-'''Georges Belfort'''<br>Recognized for research on the behavior of biological molecules at solid interfaces and the use of membrane bioreactors to selectively recover medicinals from complex mixtures. Co-founder of the North American Membrane Society.
+'''W. Kenneth Davis''' (1918–2005)<br>BS and MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: head of reactor development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; VP, Bechtel Nuclear; Deputy Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Energy. <br>
-'''Alexis T. Bell'''<br>Recognized for work in catalytic phenomena, reaction mechanisms and catalytic site identification and description; applied cutting-edge spectroscopy.
+'''John V. N. Dorr '''(1872–1962)<br>Recognized for achievements including the invention of continuous process sedimentation and filtration equipment, which revolutionized solid-liquid separation. <br>
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/bird-r-byron.aspx R. Byron Bird]'''<br>Recognized for establishing “transport phenomena” as a distinct discipline.
+'''Thomas B. Drew '''(1902–1985)<br>BS and MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: the first systematic use of heat, mass and momentum fundamentals in industrial applications; key contributor to Hanford isotope separation.
-'''Harvey W. Blanch'''<br>Recognized for work on protein interactions; DNA electrophoresis; mammalian cell metabolism.
+'''Harry G. Drickamer''' (1918–2002)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering physical/chemical studies of solids using high pressures; first to use infrared and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy at high pressure.
-'''Michel Boudart '''(1924–2012)<br>Recognized for fundamental catalytic research: kinetics, deactivation, olefin polymerization, dispersed metals.
+'''Merrell Fenske''' (1904–1971)<br>ScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: first head of Pennsylvania State Univ’s chemical engineering department; established petroleum engineering curriculum; namesake for Penn State’s elite petroleum refining laboratory.
-'''Robert A. Brown'''<br>Recognized for modeling of materials (e.g., semiconductor) processing phenomena. President, Boston Univ.
+'''Colin G. Fink''' (1881–1953)<br>Recognized for achievements including: development of ductile incandescent tungsten lamp filaments; insoluble copper anode; hot dipped aluminum coatings.
-'''Barry C. Buckland'''<br>Recognized for microbial fermentation research on vaccine quality; developed processes for chickenpox, Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) and hepatitis.
+'''Edwin Gilliland '''(1909–1973)<br>BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS, Penn State; PhD, MIT — all in chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements including: director of synthetic rubber production during WWII; wetted-wall mass transfer; butadiene recovery; ion exchange; heterogeneous catalysis.
-'''Nai Y. Chen'''<br>Recognized for discovering shape-selective zeolitic catalytic-cracking catalyst.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/haensel-vladimir.aspx Vladimir Haensel] '''(1914–2002)<br>BS and MS in chemical engineering, Northwestern Univ.; PhD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including cryogenic gas liquefaction and separation technology, especially for the production of liquefied natural gas.
-'''Andrea Chow'''<br>Recognized for developing technology to miniaturize chemical, biological and biochemical analyses. Developed Caliper Tech LabChip microchip to control DNA, RNA and protein purification in the Aligent 2100 bioanalyzer.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/hochwalt-carroll-a.aspx Carroll A. Hochwalt] '''(1899–1987)<br>Recognized for achievements including: work on highly toxic tetraethyl lead in large quantities; low sudsing washing machine detergent; vice president, Monsanto.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/churchill-stuart-w.aspx Stuart W. Churchill]'''<br>Recognized as a pioneer in reaction engineering and fluid dynamics fundamentals. Participant in launching of Chemical Heritage Foundation. <br>
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/hottel-hoyt-c.aspx Hoyt C. Hottel] '''(1903–1998)<br>BS in chemistry, Univ. of Indiana; MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: work in fuels and combustion; radiant-heat expert and early solar energy pioneer; built three solar houses.
-'''Clark K. Colton'''<br>Recognized for work on continuous-flow membrane filtration of plasma from whole blood; continuous-flow membrane plasmapheresis: theoretical models for flux and hemolysis; artificial pancreas.
+'''George E. Holbrook '''(1909–1987)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, all from Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for leadership including: product development at DuPont; director of the Chemical, Rubber, and Forest Products Bureau at the National Production Authority (NPA); charter member of National Academy of Engineering. <br>
-'''Paul M. Cook'''<br>Founder, Raychem, Diva Systems. Established SRI International Radiation Engineering Laboratory. Chairman, Sarnoff Board.
+'''Olaf A. Hougen''' (1893–1986)<br>Achievements recognized with five AIChE awards, the Esso Award of the American Chemical Society, the Lamme Gold Medal Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and election to the National Academy of Engineering.
-'''John C. Crittenden'''<br>Director, National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/katz-donald-l.aspx Donald L. Katz] '''(1907–1989)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: work in petroleum and reservoir engineering; underground gas storage; heat-transfer phase behavior. <br>
-'''Donald A. Dahlstrom''' (1920–2005)<br>Recognized for work in mineral liquid-solids separation processes for recovery and waste disposal.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/kirkbride-chalmer-g.aspx Chalmer G. Kirkbride]''' (1907–1998)<br>Recognized for leadership in industrial and academic research; chairman of Houdry, Sun, Magnolia; author of 1947 first edition of “Chemical Engineering Fundamentals.” <br>
-'''Mark E. Davis'''<br>Recognized for pioneering work in new catalytic materials and chemical sensors using ceramics and electronic materials. Recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award.
+'''Sidney D. Kirkpatrick '''(1894–1973)<br>Recognized for leadership: editor-in-chief of “Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering;” Electrochemical Society president. <br>
-'''Joseph M. DeSimone'''<br>Recognized for work in liquid CO<sup>2</sup> for pharmaceutical extraction and groundwater remediation; imprint lithography materials for shape-specific biomaterials.
+'''Mooson Kwauk''' (1920–2012)<br>BS, Univ. of Shanghai; MS, Princeton Univ. Recognized for leadership in fluidization, chemical reaction engineering and extractive metallurgy.
-'''Pablo G. Debenedetti'''<br>Recognized for work on structure, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of fluid mixtures and glasses; preservation and formulation of pharmaceutical products in water-soluble glassy matrices.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/chemical-engineering/landau.aspx Ralph Landau]''' (1916–2004)<br>PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for leadership and pioneering work: with ethylene oxide, terephthlalic acid, maleic anhydride, Oxirane, and acetic anhydride processes; founded Scientific Design/Halcon.<br>
-'''Michael F. Doherty'''<br>Recognized for work on synthesis of non-ideal separations; crystallization of organic materials. <br>
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/chemical-engineering/little-walker-lewis.aspx Warren K. Lewis]''' (1882–1975)<br>Recognized for achievements including: co-author of “Principles of Chemical Engineering;” basis for quantitative unit operations calculations; pioneered fluidized beds leading to catalytic cracking.
-'''Elisabeth Drake'''<br>Recognized for leadership of MIT Energy Lab; environmental sustainability and research competition.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/chemical-engineering/little-walker-lewis.aspx Arthur D. Little] '''(1863–1935)<br>Studied chemistry at MIT before the advent of chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements including: AIChE founder; coined the phrase “unit operations;” expertise in sulfite papermaking; famed company founder.
-'''Abraham E. Dukler''' (1925–1994)<br>Recognized for systematic studies of two-phase flow regimes. Sparked formation of AIChE’s Design Institute for Multi-phase Processing (DIMP).
+'''W. Robert Marshall '''(1916–1988)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology); PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for achievements including pioneering work in transport phenomena, boundary layer theory, transport phenomena and statistics, and the use of these to solve critical problems in spray processing. <br>
-'''David A. Edwards'''<br>Recognized for therapeutic aerosol drug delivery. Co-founder, Advanced Inhalation Research. Formed Medicine in Need to mitigate spread of tuberculosis and avian influenza.
+'''Walter G. May''' (Born 1918)<br>BS and MS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Saskatchewan; ScD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: work in fluidization; high-energy propellants; liquefied natural-gas technology and centrifugal isotope separation theory and practice.
-'''Ed Ekholm '''(1925–2006)<br>Recognized for work at Bechtel and Fisher Tropsch; butyl rubber, ethylene. Founder, Pace Engineering.
+'''William H. McAdams'''<br>Recognized for achievements including: author of ‘Heat Transfer;” use of laminar boundary-layer theory.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/iconic-innovators/lawrence-evans.aspx Lawrence B. Evans]'''<br>Recognized for pioneering development and application of integrated systems for chemical process modeling, simulation and optimization. Founder, Aspen Technology, Inc.<br>
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/mcafee-jerry.aspx Jerry McAfee]''' (1916–1995)<br>ScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for leadership: in industrial research development; president of Gulf Oil.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/fair-james-r.aspx James R. Fair] '''(1920–2010)<br>Recognized for work on distillation contacting mechanisms; adsorbent regeneration kinetics; catalytic distillation; high-efficiency packings.
+'''Warren McCabe '''(1899–1982)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: McCabe-Thiele technique for analyzing distillation columns; author of “Elements of Chemical Engineering.” <br>
-'''Liang S. Fan'''<br>Recognized for work in particulate reaction engineering. Invented “OSCAR” for carbonation ash reactivation, and “CARBONOX,” for NOx reduction.
+'''John J. McKetta''' (Born 1915)<br>Chemical engineering graduate, Tri-State Univ. (now Trine Univ.); PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: “Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design;” energy conservation and environmental protection; service to the Institute. <br>
-'''Sheldon Friedlander '''(1927–2007)<br>Recognized for pioneering work in aerosol science, fine-particle engineering, nanoparticle aggregates, and environmental impacts.
+'''Victor Mills '''(1897–1997)<br>Chemical engineering degree, Univ. of Washington. Recognized for achievements including: faster Ivory Soap manufacture; prevented Jif peanut butter separation; improved Duncan Hines cake mixes; invented Pampers.
-'''Gerald G. Fuller'''<br>Recognized for work on orientation dynamics in complex liquids; deformation of fluid-fluid interfaces; development of rheo-optical techniques.
+'''Eger V. Murphree''' (1892–1962)<br>BS and MS in chemistry, Kentucky Univ. Recognized for achievements including: invention of fluid catalytic cracking; leader in developing synthetic toluene, fluid coking; Murphree plate efficiency. Formed and served as president of Exxon Research and Engineering.
-'''Elmer Gaden''' (1923–2012)<br>Recognized as a pioneer in biochemical engineering. Established bioengineering and bioprocessing curricula at Columbia Univ.
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/othmer-donald-f.aspx Donald F. Othmer] '''(1904–1995)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Nebraska; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for achievements including: the Othmer still; cellulose acetate and artificial silk fibers; RDX explosives; co-author of “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.”<br>
-'''Haren Gandhi'''<br>Recognized for pioneering research in three-way catalysts for control of automobile emissions; commercialization of Pd/Rh and Pd-only; alternative fuels catalysts; oxygen storage components.
+'''Max Stone Peters '''(1920–2011)<br>BS and PhD, Penn State Univ. Recognized for achievements including plant design and economics for chemical engineers. <br>
-'''Alice Gast'''<br>President, Imperial College London. Recognized for her work in colloid and surface phenomena.
+'''William G. Pfann '''(1917–1982)<br>Recognized for achievements including: increasing semiconductor purity; reduced metallic and semi-metallic dislocations from 3.5 million per cm<sup>2</sup> to near zero.
-'''George Georgiou'''<br>Recognized for developing protein-based inhaled anthrax therapies; discovered proteins to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
+'''Robert L. Pigford '''(1917–1988)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Mississippi State Univ.; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Illinois. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering process models for absorption with reaction; cycling zone adsorption; sulfur dioxide by chemisorption.
-'''Ignacio E. Grossmann'''<br>Recognized for mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP); model formulation and solution for process design and operation.
+'''Margaret H. Rousseau''' (1911–2000)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Rice Univ.; PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: design of first large penicillin plant; first American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering; first female AIChE member. AIChE Founders Award winner, 1983.
-'''Keith E. Gubbins'''<br>Recognized for work in modeling nano-porous material fabrication; effects of confinement on selective adsorption from mixtures, phase transitions; pioneering computer simulations.
+'''Eli Ruckenstein '''(Born 1926)<br>BS and PhD, Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering nucleation and growth kinetics; colloidal and emulsion stability impacts on material science. Recipient of the National Medal of Science.
-'''Carol K. Hall'''<br>Recognized for work in generalized Flory dimer theory and Hall-Helfand correlation function; simulation of amyloid fibrils formation.
+'''J. Henry Rushton ('''1905–??)<br>Recognized for achievements including: pioneering fundamentals of mixing; Rushton mixing turbine; service to the Institute. <br>
-'''Thomas J. Hanratty'''<br>Recognized for work on turbulence, wave generation, two-phase flow, and computer simulation of turbulence; fundamental studies of wave generation, hydrodynamic stability, and particle mixing.
+'''Samuel P. Sadtler '''(1847–1923)<br>Studied at Gettysburg College and Harvard Univ. Recognized for leadership including: co-founder and first president of AIChE, 1908–1909; expert in legal and forensic chemistry; founded Sadtler Research Laboratories.
-'''L. Louis Hegedus'''<br>Recognized for work in catalysts and catalytic reactor design and performance; catalytic converter development.
+'''Thomas K. Sherwood''' (1903–1976)<br>BS, McGill Univ; PhD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: research in mass transfer, particularly solids drying, absorption, extraction, packed-tower and bubble-cap distillation; Sherwood Number named in his honor.
-'''Arthur E. Humphrey'''<br>Recognized for design, monitoring and control of bioprocesses. <br>
+'''Mott Souders, Jr. '''(1904–1974)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Montana State Univ; MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. of Michigan. Recognized for leadership including: work in mass transfer and extractive distillation processes; coined “K-value,” “stripping factor,” and “extractive distillation;” director of Shell Oil Development.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/idol-james-d.aspx James D. Idol] '''<br>Recognized as inventor of ammoxidation processes and catalysts; patented process for the manufacture of acrylonitrile.
+'''Ernest Thiele''' (1895–1993)<br>BS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS and PhD, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: McCabe-Thiele method of analyzing distillation; Thiele modulus for catalyst effectiveness.
-'''Sheldon Isakoff '''(1925–2012)<br>Recognized for industrial chemical engineering research; unsteady-state operations control. Early Chemical Heritage Foundation Board Chairman. <br>
+'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/chemical-engineering/little-walker-lewis.aspx William Hultz Walker]''' (1869–1934)<br>Recognized for achievements including: AIChE founder; instrumental in setting up the World War I chemical warfare program; organized chemical engineering at MIT; cellulose and silk manufacturing techniques.
-'''Jacob N. Israelachvili'''<br>Created first bio-mimetic on-off switchable adhesive mobile sensor; complex intersurface biological fluid and materials systems.
+'''Kenneth Watson''' (Born 1921)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering — all from Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for leadership including pioneering use of basic principles of mathematics, chemistry and physics in analysis of chemical processes.
-'''Klavs Jensen'''<br>Recognized for work in chemical and biological microsystems; materials synthesis and processing; multi-scale simulation.
+'''James W. Westwater '''(1919–2006)<br>BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; PhD, Univ. of Delaware. Recognized for achievements including: heat transfer in boiling and condensation; pioneer of high-speed film studies.
-'''Keith P. Johnston'''<br>Developed controlled-release bioerodible drug-delivery system; synthesized nanocrystal optoelectronic devices; nanoscale water-insoluble bioavailability.
+'''Richard H. Wilhelm '''(1909–1968)<br>BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Columbia, Univ. Recognized for achievements including: pioneering work in fluidization; discovered “parametric pumping;” authority on chemical reaction engineering.
-'''Marvin M. Johnson'''<br>Discovered metals passivation for catalytic cracking using antimony compounds; viscosity index improvers.
+'''Charles R. Wilke '''(1917–2003)<br>BS, Univ. of Dayton; MS, Washington State Univ.; PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin — all in chemical engineering. Recognized for achievements in molecular diffusion; microbiological processes at Univ. of California, Berkeley. <br>
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/joyce-william-h.aspx William H. Joyce]'''<br>Chairman, CEO, Union Carbide; CEO, Nalco. Recipient of National Medal of Technology and Plastics Academy’s Industry Achievement Award.
+[[Category:Materials]]
+[[Category:Chemicals]]
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/karol-frederick-j.aspx Frederick J. Karol]'''<br>Recognized for pioneering organotransition metal catalyst chemistry for Unipol fluidized reactors; low-density polyethylene resins, polyethylene process.
-'''George E. Keller II'''<br>Recognized for pioneering work in chemical separations, particularly for modernizing pressure swing adsorption (PSA) for use in medical oxygen generation.
-'''Chaitan Khosla'''<br>Recognized for work on modification of genes involved in microbial production of polyketides; drugs to fight infectious diseases. Recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award.
-'''Sangtae Kim'''<br>Recognized for pharmaceutical radio frequency identification using fluidic self-assembly; suspension rheology computational methods.
-'''C. Judson King'''<br>Recognized for work in reversible chemical complexation for polar organics recovery solution. <br>
-'''Julia A. Kornfield'''<br>Recognized for work on polymer blend dynamics; flow alignment of liquid-crystalline and block polymers; physical aspects of new biomedical materials.
-'''Michael R. Ladisch'''<br>Recognized for developing and scaling up new approaches and materials for process chromatography, absorptive bioseparations, and biocatalysis.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/scientists-you-must-know/robert-langer.asp  Robert Langer]'''<br>Recognized for inventing controlled drug-release systems (the “patch”); creative work in developing transdermal ultrasound drug delivery and growing engineered muscle tissue and engineered blood vessels. Youngest person ever elected to all three U.S. National Academies.
-'''Gerald D. Laubach'''<br>Recognized for developing and commercializing anti-arthritic and anti-diabetic drugs. Former President of Pfizer.
-'''Cato T. Laurencin'''<br>Recognized for novel polymer-synthesized ceramic-composite-based system for bone repair and in vitro evaluation.
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/li-norman-n.aspx '''''Norman N. Li'''''']''<br>Inventor and developer of liquid membranes.
-'''Henry Linden'''<br>Recognized for work on global climate change; industrial ecology; energy resource assessment; clean coal technologies. Director, IIT Energy Power Center.
-'''James Mathis'''<br>Recognized for chemical research.&nbsp;&nbsp;
-'''Stephen L. Matson'''<br>Recognized for work on multi-phase membrane reactors; liquid-liquid extractive membrane reactors; enzymatic membranes for synthesis and separation of peptides.
-'''John R. McWhirter'''<br>Responsible for the invention, development and commercialization of the Unox System for secondary wastewater treatment by Union Carbide.
-'''Thomas O. Mensah'''<br>Recognized for fiber optics development and applications; high-vacuum radio frequency sputtering. Founder, Superconductivity Technology.
-'''Edward W. Merrill'''<br>Founder of biomedical engineering. Pioneered use of films and surfaces in biomedical applications — rheological and clotting properties of human blood; polyethylene oxide as a biomaterial; molecular transport across membranes; artificial kidneys, blood oxygenation and accompanying CO<sup>2</sup> removal during open heart surgery.
-'''Arthur B. Metzner '''(1927–2006)<br>Recognized for work in turbulent/porous media flows, mixing non-Newtonian fluids.<br>
-'''John J. Mooney'''<br>Recognized as co-inventor of automotive catalytic converter. President, Engelhard Industries. President, Environmental and Energy Technology Policy Institute.
-'''James Y. Oldshue '''(1925–2007)<br>Recognized for work in fluid mixing technology.<br>
-'''Julio M. Ottino'''<br>Recognized for modeling of complex chaotic systems; mixing; three-phase dispersions; granular materials.
-'''Nicholas A. Peppas'''<br>Recognized for work in drug delivery systems, including better ways of delivering insulin for diabetics; skin scaffolds.
-'''John Prausnitz'''<br>Recognized as pioneer in adapting molecular science to process design; pioneered molecular thermodynamics for biotechnology. Recipient of National Medal of Science.
-'''Stanley I. Proctor'''<br>Director, Engineering Technology and Services at Monsanto; President, ABET; Chair of AIChE Foundation Board of Trustees; Chair, U.S. Council for International Engineering Practice. <br>
-'''Buddy D. Ratner'''<br>Recognized for work in engineered biomaterial surfaces to control biological surface interactions; synthesized biostable radio frequency plasma films and polymer scaffolds.
-'''Kenneth J. Richards '''(1923–2008)<br>Recognized for contributions to developing advanced copper smelting technology. President, Kerr-McGee.
-'''Edward J. Rosinski '''(1921–2000)<br>Recognized as co-inventor (with Charles Planck) of zeolite catalytic-cracking catalyst; 76 U.S. patents, many on zeolites.
-'''Alfred D. Saffer '''(1918–2012)<br>President, Chief Technical Officer, Oxirane. Vice Chairman, Halcon International. Petrochemical R&amp;D and commercialization.
-'''Charles N. Satterfield'''<br>Recognized for work in chemical reaction engineering, including trickle beds, slurry reactors, heterogeneous catalysis; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, catalytic hydrotreating.
-'''William R. Schowalter'''<br>Recognized for modeling dynamic behavior of fluids composed of large molecules, deformable particles, or colloidal matter.
-'''Jerome S. Schultz'''<br>Recognized for work with biorecognition and bioreceptor sensors, synthetic membranes; transport in tissues; immobilized enzymes; pharmacokinetics.
-'''John H. Seinfeld'''<br>Recognized for developing first models describing urban air quality; one of first to describe linkage between urban ozone and global climate change.
-'''Martin B. Sherwin'''<br>Recognized for technical leadership in developing artificial organs, environmentally friendly insecticides, gas-separation membranes. Director, W. R. Grace.
-'''Michael L. Shuler'''<br>Recognized as early pioneer in simulating molecular and cellular biological systems and developing bioreactor and analog cell culture systems. Co-authored “Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts.”
-'''[http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/petrochemistry-and-synthetic-polymers/petrochemistry/sinfelt.aspx John H. Sinfelt]'''<br>Recognized for work in catalyst fundamentals; invented bimetallic Pt-Ir powerforming catalyst.
-'''Arnold F. Stancell'''<br>Recognized for work in polymer and petrochemical processes; microelectronics processing plasma reactions; rapid laser bonding of plastics.
-'''George Stephanopoulos'''<br>Recognized for work on statistics and stochastics in computer science and artificial intelligence.
-'''James R. Swartz'''<br>Recognized for work on design and yield improvements of recombinant protein production; cell-free methods in developing patient-specific cancer vaccines, having so produced active complex hydrogenases enzymes; improved water filters based on the protein Aquaporin Z’s ability to pass only water, possibly leading to highly selective biosensors
-'''Larry F. Thompson'''<br>Recognized for inventing polymeric resist materials for making chromium masks. Managed development of 193-nm deep UV lithography.
-'''Klaus D. Timmerhaus''' (1924–2011)<br>Recognized for cryogenics science and practice. <br>
-'''Herbert L. Toor '''(1927–2011)<br>Recognized for seminal reactive multicomponent mixing research. Toor Test is industry standard for assessing relative mixing and reaction rates.
-'''James A. Trainham III '''<br>Recognized for work in chemical industry sustainability. Vice President for Science and Technology, PPG.
-'''Walter J. Weber'''<br>Recognized for water resource management; membrane separations; free-radical oxidation; organic macromolecules in aquatic systems; supercritical water.
-'''Vern Weekman'''<br>Recognized for chemical reaction engineering modeling, particularly catalytic cracking.<br>
-'''James Wei'''<br>Recognized for pioneering industrial catalysis and reaction engineering research. Editor-in-Chief, “Advances in Chemical Engineering.” Dean Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton Univ.<br>
-'''Jackie Y. Ying'''<br>Recognized for work on nanostructure manipulations; nanoporous materials as membranes and molecular sieving sensors; host matrices for quantum dots and wires.
-'''Fred Zenz'''<br>Recognized for pioneering fluidization work. Founder, Particulate Solids Research Institute. Book: “Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems.”
-'''Charles F. Zukoski'''<br>Recognized for work in nanoparticle suspension manipulation; properties of partially saturated granular materials.