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Cupola
Era Alumni (1945-1962)
1947
B.S. The National Academy of Engineers elected Octave Levenspiel
(Chem) a member in 2000, the same year he received an honorary doctorate
of engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. The following year he
was given the Amundson Award from the North American Symposium on Chemical
Reaction Engineering, and in 2003 he received the Founders Award of AIChE.
He is Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University.
1949
B.S. Although retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
since 1991, Donald G. Miller (Chem) still does some chemistry there,
as well as at Texas Christian University and at the University of Naples,
Italy. He also participates in Livermore city politics and writes articles
on ballistics for various gun magazines.
1954
B.S. In 2000, Yeow Hin Khoo (ChemE), his wife, Doreen, and
son, Danny, moved to a big, new condominium in Singapore. When Danny married
in 2001, his wife, too, joined them in their spacious residence.
Ph.D. Thomas O. Passell (Chem) invites us to go to www.lenr-canr.org
to view some of his attempts to resolve the controversy over cold fusion.
Retired from the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, he still
does a little lab work, but mostly enjoys traveling the world and spending
time with his six children and nine grandchildren, the oldest of whom
was married last year.
1958
B.S. The 2004 ACS Award in Separations Science & Technology
was given to William H. Pirkle (Chem) for his work in chiral molecules,
which led to the development of many chiral stationary phases for chromatography.
His method of isolating the more active or less toxic enantiomer of a
compound is routinely used by chemists, and has virtually unlimited applications.
He is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he has served on the faculty since 1964. He has
six children and enjoys woodworking and flying model airplanes.
1961
B.S. Bruce C. Gates (ChemE) is the recipient of the 2004 Gabor
A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. His career was strongly
influenced by research he did with Prof. Theodore Vermeulen, who was able
“to make chemistry and chemical engineering one whole.” His work in integrating
homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis into the field of molecular surface
catalysis has brought him world renown, as have his major contributions
in hydroprocessing and acid-base catalysis. In addition, his group's research
has set a benchmark in the area of supported metal cluster catalysis,
and he is author of widely used textbooks. Between 1969 and 1992, he served
on the faculty of the University of Delaware, but then returned to his
native California as Professor of Chemical Engineering and Material Science
at UC Davis, where he is still to be found.
M.S. Having retired from Mobil Research and Development in Dallas
nine years ago, E. Thomas Strom (Chem) has been serving as an adjunct
professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, teaching organic, polymer,
and industrial chemistry. He is in his 20th year as editor of “The Southwest
Retort,” a regional ACS publication serving ACS members in Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico.
1962
B.S. C. Grant Willson (See 1973 Ph.D. Chem)
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