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C. JUDSON KING FESTSCHRIFT Professor C. Judson King III. An Informal Minibiography Born in 1935 of an Army family, Jud moved about the military world during his early years. He developed an interest in camping and hiking during this time, an avocation he has carried with him throughout his life. He graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, and proceeded to Yale for undergraduate studies in chemical engineering and then to MIT for graduate work. His MS degree included the MIT practice school, training that would lead to his first assignment. His Ph.D. degree was completed under the guidance of Professor Ed Vivian in the area of gas absorption. He accepted a position with MIT as the director of the practice school at the Exxon Research station in New Jersey. At about this time, he married his wife Jean and began a family which included children and large cats. Of course, it was expected that Jud would join the MIT faculty, as was the usual case for the best and the brightest graduates, but he made an abrupt change in direction, accepting an assistant professorship at the University of California in Berkeley. His arrival in January of 1964 coincided with a period of expansion and great research fervor in the department, and Jud fit into the scene perfectly. Separation, already a strength in the college, became a focal area, which it has remained to the present day, in considerable measure due to the very significant contributions of Jud King. Returning a moment to his family life, the Kings have three children, Mary Elizabeth, Cary, and Catherine. They continue to live in Kensington, CA, where Jud’s interests continue to involve mountain and canyon hiking. For many years, he was active in the Boy Scouts. He has intimate knowledge of the mountain regions of the United States, with Muir-like expertise and love of the California Ranges. Over the past 32 years Jud has risen through the ranks to full professorship and then to the chairmanship, and later becoming the first chemical engineer to become Dean of the College of Chemistry at Berkeley. Had his administrative career ended there, it would have been deemed successful, but his talents were called upon again, ultimately calling him to the office of Provost of the Berkeley Campus, a position in which he delighted. Within the past year, Jud has moved to the central administration for the University of California, where he is vice president in charge of the national laboratories managed by the University. The destinies of 165 000 students, 7000 faculty, 16 000 laboratory employees, 9 campuses, and 3 national laboratories spread over a large part of the United States are under his guidance. Academically, he continues to guide the studies of three Ph.D. students and continues to be very active in the AIChE. Jud has received many honors throughout his career including election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981. He was honored with a major Symposium Series at the AIChE 1995 Annual Meeting for his contributions to the field, including the work in founding the Separations Division.
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Figure 1. A timeline delineating the myriad separation science and engineering contributions made by Prof. C. Judson King along with his continuing research interests. (The timeline was assembled by Prof. Antonio A. Garcı´a at Arizona State University.)
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