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Olaf Andreas Hougen
Pages 206-211

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From page 207...
... Studying mathematics beyond calculus was discouragecI. There were no textbooks in chemical engineering except those of a descriptive nature cleating with in(lustrially appliecI chemistry.
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... Despite the fact that advanced degrees in fields such as chemical engineering were considered unnecessary at Wisconsin, Hougen worked during the summer months on his doctoral thesis. The project that constituted his thesis work hac!
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... Luckily, Kenneth Watson returned to Wisconsin in 1942 and worked with Hougen on a number of endeavors, including advances in chemical engineering theory and practice, teaching, and research, as well as plant design, construction, and operations. They also initiated an ambitious program on applied kinetics and inclustrial reaction rates.
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... Following the Chicago kinetics symposium, the University of Wisconsin Research Committee allotted an annual sum of ten thousand clolIars for a ten-year period to conduct research on the principles of industrial reaction rates, kinetics, and catalysis. The research sponsored by this support paved the way for further research on thermodynamics anct appliecl kinetics and ultimately lecl to the books Thermodynamics and Kinetics, which were coauthored by Hougen and Kenneth Watson.
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... Although it may, incleed, be said that he contributed to major changes in the practice and teaching of chemical engineering during a period of forty years, it is the magnificent inventory of goodness that has accumulated in the lives of those with whom he lived and worked that is Olaf Hougen's chief contribution.
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