for one year the survey started ineering Chemistry. The Review presented here covers essentially the same subject matter a5 the inaugural three annual reviews, the other two ,which will make its third appearance , which appears in our January
THE EDlTORS
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APPLl ED K INETlCS
0.A. HOUGEN
received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and n o w i s chairman of its Chemical Engineering Department. H e has published texts on thermodynamics, kinetics, etc., is a recipient of the William H. Walker Award, and i o a member o f the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Association of University Professors, American Society of Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Phi Kappa Phi.
AND EQUILIBRIA
1825
JAMES
P.
HSU was born i n Hsiakon, Kiangyin, Kiangsu, China, in 1918, H e came to the United States i n 1 9 4 5 under a government scholarship spon. sored by the Chinese Ministry of Education. His undergraduate work En mechanical engineering war pursued in the National Central University of China. From 1945 to 1948 he attended the University of Minnesota and there received his M.S. in agricultural engineering. In 1949 Hsu received an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
ALKY LATlON
R. NORRIS SHREVE, professor of chemical engineering at Purdue university since 1930, i s a graduate of Harvard University. H e organized the Division of D y e Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, has been chairman of the Divisions of Medicinal and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and chairman of the Unit Processes Symposia since 1937. H e is a member of the Americsn Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute o f Chemical Engineers, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Phi Lambda Uprilom.
1833
AMINATION BY REDUCT ION
JESSE WERNER
(born in N e w York City, 1916) attended Brooklyn College and received his M A . and Ph.D. from Columbia University. At present he i s head of the Intermediates Section at General A n i l i n e and Film Corporation, Grasselli, N. 8. H e i s a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pi M u Epsilon, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Sigma Xi.
1841
AMMONOLYSIS
ARTHUR C. STEVENSON was born i n Coldwater, Mich., i n 1911. H e received his A.B. from Michigan State Normal College i n 1 9 3 4 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan i n 1940 and 1942, respectively, Stevenson i s on the staff of the Jackson Laboratory of E. 1. d u Pont d e Nemourr & Company, Penns Grove, N. J. We i s a member of the American ChemicaR Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon.
1846
BERNARD LEWIS (born 1899, i n London) received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1926. H e i s chief of the Explosives Branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. Lewis has written about explosives, gas reactions, and kinetics, and i s coauthor of “Combustion, Flames, and Explosions of Gases.” H e i s a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Scientific Advisory Committee on Ballistics, and chairman of the Sub-committee on Combustion, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
COMBUSTION 1851
GUENTHER von ELBE
was born in Germany i n 1903) he received h/E Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. V o n Elbe i s supervising chemist, Physical Chemistry and Physics Section, Explosives Branch o f the Bureau of Mines. H e i s coauthor of “Combustion, Flames, and Explosions of Gases,” author of other publications i n the fields of kinetics and thermodynamics, he is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, and served as a member o f the Technical Oil Mission to Germany.
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ESTERIFl CATION
emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University
1863
898. H e has been interested in esterification
FERMENTATION
e dibutylphthalate for use as a plasticizer. M e d a l for his contributions to research th. Reid i s a consultant t o the D u Pont y, Thiokol Corporation, Socony-Vacuum dare Service.
SYLVAN B. LEE
(born in Holmen,
Wis., in 1916)
received
his PhD. in
1868
. In 1949 FR IEDE L-C RAFTS REACTIONS
L e e became assistant
Brooklyn i n 1888) i s a graduate of the Since 1 9 9 6 he has been on the staff of urtrial Chemistry, U. S. Department of cal adviser t o the chief of the bureau. Derivatives,” editor of three editions of ” and a member of the American Chemte of Chemical Engineers.
1880
emistry department at Purdue University earch Foundation Projects in Chemistry, H e received his Ph.D. from Purdue in
.
1882
Xi,
and Phi Lambda Epsilon.
n Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1991. H e received University in 1943 and 1947, respectively. om the Purdue Research Foundation he worked
on, Phi Kappa Tau, and Sigma Xi.
ISOMER I ZATl ON I#
‘1887 ime he has worked on the development somerization, and other processes. H e ISociety and the American Association
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i n Succasunna, N. J., i n 1894, he 1917 has been employed by the ork has been primarily o n nitration. ng nitration processes, explosive comII been a consultant on the design and Crater i s a member of the A r m y Ordnance
NITRATION 1889
Association and the
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O X I DATION
1892
POLYM ERI Z A T l O N
1930
PYROLYSIS OF COAL AND SHALE
1906
L. F. MAREK, vice president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., graduated from the University of Texas and received his M.A. From M.I.T. H e i s coauthor of the American Chemical Society Monograph, "Catalytic Oxidation of Organic Compounds in the V a p o r Phase"; is author of the chapter on oxidation in "Unit Processes in Organic Synthesis"/ and the chapter on oxidation in the 19th Report o f the Committee on Catalysis of the National Research Council.
CHARLES C. WINDING, assistant director OF the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at Cornell University, was born i n 1908 in Minneapolis. H e received his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Winding is coauthor o f a text a n plastics and author of several patents on synthetic adsorbentsf h e i s a licensed engineer and a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon.
CHARLES H. PRIEN,
associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Denver and research engineer at the Industrial Research Institute, University of Denver, was born i n Lafayette, Ind., i n 1916. H e attended Purdue University, where he received his Ph.D. i n 1948. Prien is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, American Association for theAdvancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon.
VLADIMIR HAENSEL
19f4
received his B.S. from Northwestern University i n 1935, his M.S. from M.I.T., and his Ph.D. in 1939 from Northwestern where he helped t o set up the lpatieff H i g h Pressure Laboratory. In August 1945 he was appointed coordinator of the Cracking Research Division OF Univerraf Oil Products Company after serving as a member of the Technical Oil Mission to Germany for the Petroleum Administration for War. H e is a member OF the American Chemical Society.
MELVIN J. STERBA received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1932. In 1 9 3 5 he joined the Engineering Research Department o f Universal Oil Products Company and engaged in correlating laboratory, p i l o t plant, and commercial data on thermal and catalytic cracking, reforming, and hydroforming. Recently he has been concerned with the development and performance of catalytic cracking units. H e i s 8 member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
SU LFONAT I ON 1983
GEORGE F. LISK (born 1914, Belchertown, Mass.) obtained his A.B. and M.A. from Clark University. H e has been employed since 1 9 3 7 as a research chemist at National A n i l i n e Division, A l l i e d Chemical and Dye Corporation, chiefly in the field of intermediate syntheses. During the war, he worked on an antimalarial project for the O f f i c e of Scientific Research and Development, and coauthored a part of their work fot publication. Lisk 1s a member of the American Chemical Society.
