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Roy Jackson Professor Roy Jackson was born in Manchester, England, on October 6, 1931. He received B.A. (1954) and M.A. (1959) degrees in Physics from Cambridge University and a D.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1968. Between 1955 and 1961 he worked with Imperial Chemical Industries in Great Britain as a Technical Officer. In 1961 he took an academic position at the University of Edinburgh, becoming Reader in Chemical Engineering. He moved to Rice University in 1968, where in 1973 he became the A. J. Hartstock Professor of Chemical Engineering. After spending the years 1977-1982 at the University of Houston, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Princeton University, where he became the Class of 1950 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Professor Jackson’s scholarly work has earned him an international reputation as one of the major intellectual leaders in chemical engineering. He has made pioneering contributions in optimization and process control, chemical reaction engineering, fluid mechanics, and the mechanics of granular materials and fluidized beds. Very few researchers have ranged so broadly and produced a body of work of such consistently high quality. He has written more than 100 technical papers and one book, Transport in Porous Catalysts, and he just completed a monograph on the dynamics of fluidized particles. Professor Jackson’s accomplishments in research have earned him a number of important distinctions, including the Alpha Chi Sigma (1980) and Thomas Baron (1993) Awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He delivered the Reilly Lecture at the University of Notre Dame (1997) and the Leland Lecture (1998) at Rice University. He was a Sherman Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1994. An exceptionally gifted teacher, he received Engineering Council Teaching Awards in 1988 and 1989 and the first School of Engineering and Applied Science Teaching Award in 1995, all from Princeton University. Roy Jackson retired from his position at Princeton University in June 1998. The Department of Chemical Engineering in Princeton organized a Symposium in his honor on April 24, 1998, in which Professors John Davidson (Cambridge University), Martin Feinberg (The Ohio State University), George Homsy (Stanford University), Dan Luss (University of Houston), Stuart Savage (McGill University), and Jennifer Sinclair (Purdue University) reflected on Roy Jackson’s contributions to engineering science and described new results on problems ranging from reaction networks to granular flow. Roy Jackson’s teaching and research career spans 37 years. During this time, he has left a profound mark among his students and colleagues and within the chemical engineering profession at large as a teacher of uncommon distinction and a scholar without peer for the combined breadth and depth of his output.
Sankaran Sundaresan Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263 IE980829A
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