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FUMITAKE YOSHIDA
FUMITAKE YOSHIDA
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BYRON BIRD AND EDWIN N LIGHTFOOT F UMITAKE YOSHIDA, Professor Emeritus in the Chemical Engineering Department at Kyoto University (Japan)
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student in the United States; from September 1951 to February 1952, he was an auditor at Columbia University; from March 1952 to April 1953, he was a researcher on mass transfer in packed columns at Yale University; from January to October 1959, he was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin; from January to June 1963, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he lectured on mass-transfer operations; from July to August 1966, he was a visiting professor at several Australian universities; from July to December 1970, he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he lectured on biomedical engineering; in February 1974, he was a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Taiwan; in October 1976, he was a visitor at Ben Gurion University, Israel; and in 1987, he was a visiting professor at Dortmund University, in West Germany. Professor Yoshida was able to get invitations to these various educational institutions because of his ability to communicate well in English, a rare quality among Japanese engineers.
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1996. In addition, he was on the editorial board of and a contributor to the Handbook of Chemical Engineering, Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Maruzen (1968)
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He prepared meals for her, doing the cooking himself, a most unusual undertaking for a Japanese husband. Note: The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Professor Emeritus Masataka Tanigaki of Kyoto University in preparing this memoir.
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