FUNDAMENTALS O u r second annual review of t h e research in basic phenomena t h a t cont r o l chemical engineering processes is presented t h i s month. It complements t h e Unit Processes and Unit Operations Annual Reviews w i t h more complete coverage of fundamental papers o n thermodynamics, chemical rate processes, fluid dynamics, and mass and heat transfer and includes t h e literature o n colloidal and surface phenomena, computers, statistics, and mathematics. T H E EDITORS
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R. H. W I L H E L M was born i n New York City i n 1909, received the Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is now professor of chemical engineering at Princeton. His field of research is engineering aspects of chemical reactors. Wilhelm is associated with the Forrestal Research Center at Princeton and is an industrial consultant. H e is a member of the ACS, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and Sigma Xi. M I C H E L BOUDART (born i n Brussels, Belgium, i n 1924) received the degree of civil chemical engineer from the University of Louvain i n 1949 and Bh.D. from Princeton University i n 1950 where he was a research associate until 1953. He has joined the Princeton headquarters of Project Squid, a cooperative research program i n jet propulsion, supported by ONR, OSR, and OOR. His field of research is homogeneous and heterogeneous kinetics.
E. F. JOHNSON is assistant professor of chemical engineering at Princeton University, where he directs research on the molecular transport properties of rocket fluids. He received his B.S. from Lehigh and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson i s an industrial consultant and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, ACS, American Society for Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.
C. E. BIRCHENALL was born i n Coatesville, Pa., i n 1922. He received his A.B. degree from Temple University in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1946. Formerly a member of the staff of the Metals Research Laboratory at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Birchenal! is now associate professor of chemistry a t Princeton University. He is a member of the A l M E and Sigma Xi.
CO LL O I DA L A N D SURFACE PHENOMENA 898
FLUID DYNAMICS 922
GEOFFREY BROUGHTON was born i n England; he received an M.Sc. from the University of London (1934) and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was employed by the Eastman Kodak Go. from 1938 to 1949, with a leave of absence to the Office of Scientific Research and Development during 1944 and 1945. Broughton i s chairman of the chemical engineering department at the University of Rochester.
A. K. OPPENHEI M received his diploma in aeronautical engineerin@ from the Warsaw Institute of Technology in 1943, Ph.D. from the University of London, and D.I.C. (Imperial College) i n 1945. He served on the faculties of the City and Guilds College (London) until 1948 and Stanford University from 1948 to 1950. Oppenheim i s assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California (Berkeley) and consultant to Shell Development Co.
THOMAS BARON attended the University of Illinois where he received his B.S. degree i n 1943 and his Ph.D. i n 1948. He was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the same institution until 1951 and wa5 also engaged as a consultant with the U. S. Army Chemical Corps. Baron has authored a number of papers on fluid mechanics; he is now employed by the Shell Development Co., Emeryville, Calif.
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ARTHUR ROSE, professor of chemical engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, and president of Applied Science Laboratories, Inc., State College, Pa. He is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Cincinnati. Rose is chairman-elect of the 1955 AAAS Gordon Conference on purification and separation.
R. L. HEINY did undergraduate work i n chemical engineering at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. He has done graduate work at The Pennsylvania State University and received an M.S. i n 1951. Currently he is an instruetor i n chemical engineering there. His doctoral research has been i n the field of distillation, and a primary interest has been the use of mathematics i n chemical engineering. R. CURTIS JOHNSON is assistant professor of chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and consultant on applied mathematics and computer techniques. He is a native of Illinois and recipient of the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently he is writing an undergraduate text i n chemical engineering stoichiometry and developing the course i n applied mathematics for chemical engineers.
JOAN A. SCHILK is a research engineer i n the development division of the Shell Development Co. at Emeryville, Calif. She is a native of Pennsylvania and received her B.S. and M.S. degrees i n chemical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where she was a computer specialist and did research on vacuum distillation of fatty acid derivatives and on mass transfer. She is a member of the ACS.
HEAT TRANSFER 932
MASS TRANSFER 937
T H E R M O D Y N A M ICs 947
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E. R. G. ECKERT (born i n Prague i n 1904) studied at the Prague Institute of Technology (engineering degree, 1927, and doctor’s degree, 1931). He taught at Danzig University and the Prague Institute of Technology before becoming a research engineer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (1945 to 1949) and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (1949 to 1951). Eckert is now professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
R. L. PIGFORD received his B.S. degree from Mississippi State College i n 1938 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois i n 1940 and 1942, respectively. Until August 1947 he was employed by Du Pont, Wilmington, Del., where he engaged i n research and plant design problems i n the field of diffusional operations. Since September 1947, Pigford has been chairman of the department of chemical engineering at the Universitysof Delaware.
J. M. S M I T H (born i n Sterling, Colo., i n 1916) received his B.S. degree from California Institute of Technology i n 1937 and Sc.D. from M I T i n 1943. Smith is professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University but for the past year has done research at Technische Hogeschool, Delft, Netherlands. He is author of a thermodynamics text and a member of the ACS, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and Sigma Xi.
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