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Neal R. AmundsonBorn 1916BS and MS in chemical engineer-ing, PhD in mathematics, Univ. ofMinnesota. Recognized forachievements as a pioneeringchemical engineering educator;

chair of 1988 National Research Council reportFrontiers in Chemical Engineering.

Leo Baekeland18631944Recognized for achievementsincluding: invention of Veloxphotographic paper; discoveredBakelite. One of AIChEs

founders; AIChE president, 1912.

Photo credit: Chemists Club Collection, Chemical HeritageFoundation Collections

Manson Benedict19072006BS 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 Burton18651954BS, Western Reserve Univ.; PhD, Johns Hopkins.Recognized for achievements including invention ofpetroleum thermal cracking.

Thomas H. Chilton18991973Chemical engineering degree from Columbia Univ.,1922. Recognized for achievements including: outstanding research at DuPont; Chilton-Colburnanalogy. AIChE president, 1951.

Karl P. CohenRecognized for leadership including: large-scale production of U-235; work with the GE NuclearEnergy Group.

Allan P. Colburn19041955PhD in chemical engineering,Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognizedfor achievements as a pioneer ofheat transfer and energy flow,

including the Chilton-Colburn analogy.

W. Kenneth Davis19182005BS and MS in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized forachievements including: head ofreactor development, U.S. Atomic

Energy Commission; VP, Bechtel Nuclear; DeputySecretary of U.S. Dept. of Energy. AIChE president, 1981.

John V. N. Dorr18721962Recognized for achievements including the invention of continuous process sedimentation andfiltration equipment, which revolutionized solid-liquid separation. AIChE president, 1932.

Thomas B. Drew19021985BS 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. Drickamer19182002BS, MS and PhD in chemicalengineering, Univ. of Michigan.Recognized for achievementsincluding: pioneering physi-

cal/chemical studies of solids using high pressures; first to use infrared and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy at high pressure.

Merrill FenskeScD in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized forachievements including: first head of Penn Stateschemical engineering department; established petroleum engineering curriculum; namesake forPenn States elite petroleum refining laboratory.

Colin G. FinkRecognized for achievements including: development of ductile incandescent tungsten lampfilaments; insoluble copper anode; hot dipped aluminum coatings.

Edwin Gilliland 19091973BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS, PennState; PhD, MIT all in chemical engineering.Recognized for achievements including: director ofsynthetic rubber production during WWII; wetted-wall mass transfer; butadiene recovery; ion exchange;heterogeneous catalysis.

FIFT YCHEMICAL ENGINEERS OFTHE FOUNDATION AGE

AIChEs history encompasses 100 years and hundreds of thousandsof engineers. Many of the engineers who founded the profession andestablished the discipline in the first half of the 20th century remainhousehold names in chemical engineering labs and industry. In thisissue of CEP, AIChEs Centennial Celebration Committee tips itshat to a select few of these engineering heroes of the FoundationAge those who attained the equivalent of AIChE Senior Memberstatus during or prior to World War II.

Next months issue will introducereaders to 100 chemical engineersof the Modern Era most ofthem still working and leavingtheir mark on the second centuryof the profession.

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Vladimir Haensel19142002BS and MS in chemical engineering, Northwestern Univ.;PhD, MIT. Recognized forachievements including invention

of the Platforming platinum-catalyzed reformingprocess for making gasoline.

Carroll A. Hochwalt18991987Recognized for achievements including: work on highly toxic tetraethyl lead in large quantities;low sudsing washing machine detergent; vice president, Monsanto.

Hoyt C. Hottel19031998BS in chemistry, Univ. of Indiana; SM in chemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achievements including: work in fuels and combustion; radiant-heat expert and early solarenergy pioneer; built three solar houses.

George E. Holbrook19091987BS, MS and PhD in chemicalengineering, all from Univ. ofMichigan. Recognized for leader-ship including: product develop-

ment at DuPont; director of the Chemical, Rubber,and Forest Products Bureau at the NationalProduction Authority (NPA); charter member ofNational Academy of Engineering. AIChE president, 1958.

Olaf A. Hougen18931986Achievements recognized withfive AIChE awards, the EssoAward of the American ChemicalSociety, the Lamme Gold Medal

Award of the American Society for EngineeringEducation and election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Donald L. Katz19071989BS, MS and PhD in chemicalengineering, Univ. of Michigan.Recognized for achievementsincluding: work in petroleum and

reservoir engineering; underground gas storage;heat-transfer phase behavior. AIChE president,1959.

Chalmer G. Kirkbride19071998Recognized for leadership: in industrial and academic research; chairman of Houdry, Sun,Magnolia; author of 1947 first edition ofChemical Engineering Fundamentals. AIChE president, 1954.

Sidney D. KirkpatrickRecognized for leadership: editor-in-chief ofChemical and Metallurgical Engineering;Electrochemical Society president. AIChE president, 1942.

Mooson KwaukBorn 1920BS, Univ. of Shanghai; MS,Princeton Univ. Recognized forleadership in fluidization, chemical reaction engineering and

extractive metallurgy.

Ralph Landau19162004PhD in chemical engineering,MIT. Recognized for leadershipand pioneering work: withethylene oxide, terephthlalic

acid, maleic anhydride, Oxirane, and acetic anhydride processes; founded ScientificDesign/Halcon.

Photo credit: Photography by Selwyn Fund. Gift of RalphLandau. Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections.

Warren K. Lewis18821975Recognized for achievementsincluding: co-author ofPrinciples of ChemicalEngineering; basis for

quantitative unit operations calculations; pioneeredfluidized beds leading to catalytic cracking.

Arthur D. Little18631935Studied chemistry at MIT before the advent of chemical engineering. Recognized forachievements including: AIChE

founder; coined the phrase unit operations;expertise in sulfite papermaking; famed companyfounder. AIChE president, 1919.

Photo credit: William Haynes Portrait Collection, ChemicalHeritage Foundation Collections.

W. Robert Marshall19161988BS in chemical engineering,Armour Institute (now IIT); PhD in chemical engineering,Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized

for achievements including pioneering work intransport phenomena, boundary layer theory, trans-port phenomena and statistics, and the use of theseto solve critical problems in spray processing.AIChE president, 1963.

Walter G. MayBorn 1918BS 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-gastechnology and centrifugal isotope separation theory and practice.

William H. McAdamsRecognized for achievements including: author of Heat Transfer; use of laminar boundary-layertheory.

Jerry McAfee19161995ScD in chemical engineering,MIT. Recognized for leadership:in industrial research develop-ment; president of Gulf Oil.

AIChE president, 1960.

Warren McCabe18991982BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. ofMichigan. Recognized for achievements including:McCabe-Thiele technique for analyzing distillationcolumns; author of Elements of ChemicalEngineering. AIChE president, 1950.

John J. McKettaBorn 1915Chemical engineering graduate,Tri-State Univ.; PhD in chemicalengineering, Univ. of Michigan.Recognized for achievements

including: Encyclopedia of Chemical Processingand Design; energy conservation and environmen-tal protection; service to the Institute. AIChE president, 1962.

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Victor Mills18971997Chemical engineering degree, Univ. of Washington.Recognized for achievements including: faster IvorySoap manufacture; prevented Jif peanut butter separation; improved Duncan Hines cake mixes;invented Pampers.

Eger V. Murphree18921962BS and MS in chemistry, Kentucky Univ. Recognizedfor achievements including: invention of fluid cata lytic cracking; leader in developing synthetictoluene, fluid coking; Murphree plate efficiency.Formed and served as president of Exxon Research and Engineering.

Donald F. Othmer19041995BS in chemical engineering, Univ.of Nebraska; MS and PhD inchemical engineering, Univ. ofMichigan. Recognized for

achievements including: the Othmer still; celluloseacetate and artificial silk fibers; RDX explosives; co-author of Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia ofChemical Technology.

Photo credit: Donald Othmer, Othmer Collection, Courtesy of ChemicalHeritage Foundation Collections.

Max Stone PetersBorn 1920BS and PhD, Penn State Univ.Recognized for achievementsincluding plant design and eco-nomics for chemical engineers.

AIChE president, 1968.

William G. PfannRecognized for achievements including: increasingsemiconductor purity; reduced metallic and semi-metallic dislocations from 3.5 million per cm2 tonear zero.

Robert L. Pigford19171988BS in chemical engineering,Mississippi State Univ.; MS andPhD in chemical engineering,Univ. of Illinois. Recognized for

achievements including: pioneering process modelsfor absorption with reaction; cycling zone adsorp-tion; sulfur dioxide by chemisorption.

Margaret H. Rousseau19112000BS in chemical engineering, Rice Univ.; PhD inchemical engineering, MIT. Recognized for achieve-ments including: design of first large penicillinplant; first American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering; first female AIChE member.AIChE Founders Award winner, 1983.

Eli RuckensteinBorn 1926BS and PhD, PolytechnicInstitute, Bucharest. Recognizedfor achievements including: pioneering nucleation and growth

kinetics; colloidal and emulsion stability impacts onmaterial science. Recipient of the National Medal of Science.

J. Henry RushtonRecognized for achievements including: pioneeringfundamentals of mixing; Rushton mixing turbine;service to the Institute. AIChE president, 1957.

Samuel P. Sadtler18471923Studied at Gettysburg College and Harvard Univ.Recognized for leadership including: AIChEfounder and first president, 1908-1909; expert inlegal and forensic chemistry; founded SadtlerResearch Laboratories.

Thomas K. Sherwood19031976BS, McGill Univ; PhD in chemical engineering,MIT. Recognized for achievements including:research in mass transfer, particularly solids drying,absorption, extraction, packed-tower and bubble-capdistillation; Sherwood Number named in his honor.

Mott Souders, Jr.19041974BS in chemical engineering, Montana State Univ;MS and PhD in chemical engineering, Univ. ofMichigan. Recognized for leadership including: workin mass transfer and extractive distillation processes;coined K-value, stripping factor, and extractive distillation; director of Shell Oil Development.

Ernest Thiele18951993BS in chemical engineering, Univ. of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign; MS and PhD, MIT. Recognizedfor achievements including: McCabe-Thiele methodof analyzing distillation; Thiele modulus for catalysteffectiveness.

William Hultz Walker18691934Recognized for achievementsincluding: AIChE founder; instru-mental in setting up the WorldWar I chemical warfare program;

organized chemical engineering at MIT; celluloseand silk manufacturing techniques.

Photo credit: Portrait of William H. Walker, William HaynesPortrait Collection, Courtesy of Chemical Heritage FoundationCollections.

Kenneth WatsonBS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering allfrom Univ. of Wisconsin. Recognized for leadershipincluding pioneering use of basic principles ofmathematics, chemistry and physics in analysis ofchemical processes.

James W. Westwater19192006BS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; PhD, Univ. ofDelaware. Recognized forachievements including: heat

transfer in boiling and condensation; pioneer ofhigh-speed film studies.

Richard H. Wilhelm19091968BS, MS and PhD in chemicalengineering, Columbia, Univ.Recognized for achievementsincluding: pioneering work in

fluidization; discovered parametric pumping;authority on chemical reaction engineering.

Charles R. Wilke19172003BS, 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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