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Alan S. Michaels
Alan S. Michaels
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He grew up in Boston and Newton, Massachusetts, and attended Newton High School, graduating in 1941 prior to entering MIT to study chemical engineering. Like many of his contemporaries who chose to study chemical engineering, he decided on the subject because he liked chemistry but wanted to do practical work.
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Hauser in the teaching of colloid chemistry. Following a year in industry where he joined a colleague trying to commercialize a new leather tanning process, he was invited to return to MIT as a co-director of the newly organized Soil Stabilization Laboratory (a collaborative activity of the civil and chemical engineering departments)
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An important concurrent research program involved the development of techniques for preparing "permselective" polymeric membranes, useful for the separation and purification of gaseous and liquid mixtures, which Alan and his MIT research staff subsequently applied, under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Saline Water, to the important problem of desalting seawater.
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In 1972, Pharmetrics was acquired by ALZA Corporation of Palo Alto, and, following this acquisition and until 1977, Alan served as president of Alza Research and senior vice president and technical director of ALZA Corporation, as well as a director of ALZA. During his tenure at ALZA, he also served as visiting scholar and consulting professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, and as visiting professor of chemical engineering at University of California, Berkeley, where he taught courses in surface and colloid chemistry, polymer science, and chemical thermodynamics.
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In 2001, ALZA was acquired by Johnson & Johnson Corporation. Early in 1977, Alan resigned from ALZA to accept an appointment on the faculty of Stanford University as adjunct professor of chemical engineering and medicine, under a grant from the National Kidney Foundation, for the purpose of conducting a research and instructional program on the artificial kidney, other extracorporeal artificial organs, bioengineering, and biomedicine.
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Between 1982 and 1984, he also served as adjunct professor of chemical engineering at both MIT and Lehigh University, in the capacity of faculty and student advisor, research co-supervisor, and lecturer. In 1986, however, Alan accepted an appointment as distinguished university professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, where he resumed his teaching and research activities in membrane and separation technology, surface and colloid chemistry, and biochemical/ biomedical engineering.
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Alan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. After his election, he was actively involved with academy affairs, where he served on the Research Briefing Panel on Chemical and Process Engineering for Biotechnology, as a member and subcommittee chairman of the Committee on Chemical Engineering Frontiers: Research Needs and Opportunities (the Amundson Committee)
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In 1996, MIT established the Alan Sherman Michaels Endowment Fund in Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of Alan's contributions to the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering during his tenure as professor in that department and his success in advancing this technology to society's benefit through his service to the medical and pharmaceutical communities. The fund is currently being used to support the Alan S
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* This memorial tribute is a slightly revised version (with help from James Michaels and Allan Hoffman)
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