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Neal R. Amundson
Born 1916
BS and MS in chemical engineer-
ing, PhD in mathematics, Univ. of
Minnesota. Recognized for
achievements as a pioneering
chemical engineering educator;
chair of 1988 National Research Council report
Frontiers in Chemical Engineering.
Leo Baekeland
18631944
Recognized for achievements
including: invention of Velox
photographic paper; discovered
Bakelite. One of AIChEs
founders; AIChE president, 1912.
Photo credit: Chemists Club Collection, Chemical Heritage
Foundation Collections
Manson Benedict
19072006
BS in chemistry, Cornell Univ.;
PhD in physical chemistry, MIT.
Recognized for leadership includ-
ing: headed development of
uranium U-235 gaseous diffusion plant; Benedict-
Webb-Rubin equation of state for fluid dynamics.
William Burton
18651954
BS, Western Reserve Univ.; PhD, Johns Hopkins.
Recognized for achievements including invention of
petroleum thermal cracking.
Thomas H. Chilton
18991973
Chemical engineering degree from Columbia Univ.,
1922. Recognized for achievements including:
outstanding research at DuPont; Chilton-Colburn
analogy. AIChE president, 1951.
Karl P. Cohen
Recognized for leadership including: large-scale
production of U-235; work with the GE Nuclear
Energy Group.
Allan P. Colburn
19041955
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
19182005
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. AIChE
president, 1981.
John V. N. Dorr
18721962
Recognized for achievements including the
invention of continuous process sedimentation and
filtration equipment, which revolutionized solid-
liquid separation. AIChE president, 1932.
Thomas B. Drew
19021985
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
19182002
BS, MS and PhD in chemical
engineering, Univ. of Michigan.
Recognized for achievements
including: pioneering physi-
cal/chemical studies of solids using high
pressures; first to use infrared and ultraviolet-
visible spectroscopy at high pressure.
Merrill Fenske
ScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for
achievements including: first head of Penn States
chemical engineering department; established
petroleum engineering curriculum; namesake for
Penn States elite petroleum refining laboratory.
Colin G. Fink
Recognized for achievements including:
development of ductile incandescent tungsten lamp
filaments; insoluble copper anode; hot dipped
aluminum coatings.
Edwin Gilliland
19091973
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.
FIFTY
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS OF
THE FOUNDATION AGE
AIChEs history encompasses 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 this
issue of CEP, AIChEs Centennial Celebration Committee tips its
hat to a select few of these engineering heroes of the Foundation
Age those who attained the equivalent of AIChE Senior Member
status during or prior to World War II.
Next months issue will introduce
readers to 100 chemical engineers
of the Modern Era most of
them still working and leaving
their mark on the second century
of the profession.
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Vladimir Haensel
19142002
BS and MS in chemical
engineering, Northwestern Univ.;
PhD, MIT. Recognized for
achievements including invention
of the Platforming platinum-catalyzed reforming
process for making gasoline.
Carroll A. Hochwalt
18991987
Recognized for achievements including: work
on highly toxic tetraethyl lead in large quantities;
low sudsing washing machine detergent; vice
president, Monsanto.
Hoyt C. Hottel
19031998
BS in chemistry, Univ. of Indiana; SM 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
19091987
BS, MS and PhD in chemical
engineering, all from Univ. of
Michigan. Recognized for leader-
ship including: product develop-
ment at DuPont; director of the Chemical, Rubber,
and Forest Products Bureau at the National
Production Authority (NPA); charter member of
National Academy of Engineering. AIChE
president, 1958.
Olaf A. Hougen
18931986
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
19071989
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. AIChE president,
1959.
Chalmer G. Kirkbride
19071998
Recognized for leadership: in industrial and
academic research; chairman of Houdry, Sun,
Magnolia; author of 1947 first edition of
Chemical Engineering Fundamentals.
AIChE president, 1954.
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
Recognized for leadership: editor-in-chief of
Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering;
Electrochemical Society president. AIChE
president, 1942.
Mooson Kwauk
Born 1920
BS, Univ. of Shanghai; MS,
Princeton Univ. Recognized for
leadership in fluidization,
chemical reaction engineering and
extractive metallurgy.
Ralph Landau
19162004
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.
Photo credit: Photography by Selwyn Fund. Gift of Ralph
Landau. Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections.
Warren K. Lewis
18821975
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
18631935
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. AIChE president, 1919.
Photo credit: William Haynes Portrait Collection, Chemical
Heritage Foundation Collections.
W. Robert Marshall
19161988
BS in chemical engineering,
Armour Institute (now IIT);
PhD in chemical engineering,
Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized
for achievements including pioneering work in
transport phenomena, boundary layer theory, trans-
port phenomena and statistics, and the use of these
to solve critical problems in spray processing.
AIChE president, 1963.
Walter G. May
Born 1918
BS and MS in chemical engineer-
ing, Univ. of Saskatchewan; ScD,
MIT. Recognized for achieve-
ments including: work in fluidiza-
tion; 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
19161995
ScD in chemical engineering,
MIT. Recognized for leadership:
in industrial research develop-
ment; president of Gulf Oil.
AIChE president, 1960.
Warren McCabe
18991982
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. AIChE president, 1950.
John J. McKetta
Born 1915
Chemical engineering graduate,
Tri-State Univ.; PhD in chemical
engineering, Univ. of Michigan.
Recognized for achievements
including: Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing
and Design; energy conservation and environmen-
tal protection; service to the Institute. AIChE
president, 1962.
AIChE Centennial
Victor Mills
18971997
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
18921962
BS and MS in chemistry, Kentucky Univ. Recognized
for achievements including: invention of fluid
cata lytic cracking; leader in developing synthetic
toluene, fluid coking; Murphree plate efficiency.
Formed and served as president of Exxon
Research and Engineering.
Donald F. Othmer
19041995
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.
Photo credit: Donald Othmer, Othmer Collection, Courtesy of Chemical
Heritage Foundation Collections.
Max Stone Peters
Born 1920
BS and PhD, Penn State Univ.
Recognized for achievements
including plant design and eco-
nomics for chemical engineers.
AIChE president, 1968.
William G. Pfann
Recognized for achievements including: increasing
semiconductor purity; reduced metallic and semi-
metallic dislocations from 3.5 million per cm
2
to
near zero.
Robert L. Pigford
19171988
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 adsorp-
tion; sulfur dioxide by chemisorption.
Margaret H. Rousseau
19112000
BS in chemical engineering, Rice Univ.; PhD in
chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achieve-
ments 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
Recognized for achievements including: pioneering
fundamentals of mixing; Rushton mixing turbine;
service to the Institute. AIChE president, 1957.
Samuel P. Sadtler
18471923
Studied at Gettysburg College and Harvard Univ.
Recognized for leadership including: AIChE
founder and first president, 1908-1909; expert in
legal and forensic chemistry; founded Sadtler
Research Laboratories.
Thomas K. Sherwood
19031976
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.
19041974
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
18951993
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
18691934
Recognized for achievements
including: AIChE founder; instru-
mental in setting up the World
War I chemical warfare program;
organized chemical engineering at MIT; cellulose
and silk manufacturing techniques.
Photo credit: Portrait of William H. Walker, William Haynes
Portrait Collection, Courtesy of Chemical Heritage Foundation
Collections.
Kenneth Watson
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
19192006
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
19091968
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
19172003
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 UC-Berkeley.
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