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Peter Victor Danckwerts
Peter Victor Danckwerts
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(now Harkness Fund) fellowship to study chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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In the same style, Danckwerts professed an antipathy toward mathematics, even though his own discoveries on residence times, gas absorption, and mixing depended on the imaginative combination of simple mathematics and acute insight into physical and chemical realities. His work anticipated what might be called the Bird, Stewart, and I~ightfoot era of chemical engineering; he was one of the first and most outspoken critics of an education based on the assumption that all problems can be solved by striking out terms in generalizecl equations.
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From 1958 to 1982 Danckwerts was executive editor of Chemical Engineering Science and cluring his tenure created one of the leacling journals in the fielcI. In this work, Danckwerts not only helped promote the welfare of chemical engineering, but in a modest way also contributed to the rise of one of our latter-day press barons, Robert Maxwell, who was one of the first to recognize the commercial opportunities in publishing scientific research.
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Always an acute observer of humorous paradoxes, Danckwerts remarked that the visitor had saicI, after discussions about British government inertia, "In Russia we also have bureaucracies." Danckwerts retained an affection for the United States and tract a successful year in North Carolina in 1976, forming a link that endures—the Cambridge Chemical Engineering Department has permanently establishect the North Carolina State University Prize, which is given for the best student research project. Danckwerts's election as a foreign associate of the U.S.
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