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FIFTEENTH P. V. DANCKWERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Chemical Engineering Science 56 (2001) 3623
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FIFTEENTH P. V. DANCKWERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE Presented by Professor John M. Prausnitz University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA on 7th November at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND THE POSTMODERN WORLD The P. V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture is sponsored by Elsevier Science Ltd. and Chemical Engineering Science in association with the Institution of Chemical Engineers, in recognition of the contribution made by Peter Danckwerts in the pursuit of scholarship in chemical engineering as manifested by his editorship of Chemical Engineering Science for 30 years. The annual lecture shall be appropriate to the aims and scope of the journal and the invited lecturer an international authority in the :eld of chemical engineering. Professor JOHN M. PRAUSNITZ John M. Prausnitz [BChE Cornell (1950), MS Rochester (1951), PhD Princeton (1955)], Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley is best known for his work on molecular thermodynamics for ?uid-phase equilibria. Professor Prausnitz is author or co-author of :ve books and over 500 research atricles, the results of which are used by chemical engineers throughout the world for chemical process design, especially for separation operations in the natural-gas, pertoleum, petrochemical and polymer industries. In recent years, he has given attention to biothermodynamics for separation operations in biotechnology. He has received numerous awards from professional societies and he is one of the few who have been elected to membership of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His entire career has been at the University of California, Berkeley but he has spent sabbatical leaves in Germany, Switzerland, England, New Zealand and Australia. He is a consultant to several major chemical companies and the recipient of three honorary doctor’s degrees (one from Italy, one from Germany and one from Princeton). Professor Prausnitz is a :rm believer in the proposition that for research and in industrial practice, chemistry and chemical engineering are never self-suCcient but must interact with all parts of the spectrum of knowledge.
0009-2509/01/$ - see front matter ? 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. PII: S 0 0 0 9 - 2 5 0 9 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 1 9 2 - 0
www.elsevier.nl/locate/ces
FIFTEENTH P. V. DANCKWERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE Presented by Professor John M. Prausnitz University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA on 7th November at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND THE POSTMODERN WORLD The P. V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture is sponsored by Elsevier Science Ltd. and Chemical Engineering Science in association with the Institution of Chemical Engineers, in recognition of the contribution made by Peter Danckwerts in the pursuit of scholarship in chemical engineering as manifested by his editorship of Chemical Engineering Science for 30 years. The annual lecture shall be appropriate to the aims and scope of the journal and the invited lecturer an international authority in the :eld of chemical engineering. Professor JOHN M. PRAUSNITZ John M. Prausnitz [BChE Cornell (1950), MS Rochester (1951), PhD Princeton (1955)], Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley is best known for his work on molecular thermodynamics for ?uid-phase equilibria. Professor Prausnitz is author or co-author of :ve books and over 500 research atricles, the results of which are used by chemical engineers throughout the world for chemical process design, especially for separation operations in the natural-gas, pertoleum, petrochemical and polymer industries. In recent years, he has given attention to biothermodynamics for separation operations in biotechnology. He has received numerous awards from professional societies and he is one of the few who have been elected to membership of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His entire career has been at the University of California, Berkeley but he has spent sabbatical leaves in Germany, Switzerland, England, New Zealand and Australia. He is a consultant to several major chemical companies and the recipient of three honorary doctor’s degrees (one from Italy, one from Germany and one from Princeton). Professor Prausnitz is a :rm believer in the proposition that for research and in industrial practice, chemistry and chemical engineering are never self-suCcient but must interact with all parts of the spectrum of knowledge.
0009-2509/01/$ - see front matter ? 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. PII: S 0 0 0 9 - 2 5 0 9 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 1 9 2 - 0