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Donald B. Broughton
Pages 56-61

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... G GERHOLD SUBMITTED BY VLADIMIR HAENSEL THE AMAZINGLY RAPID technical progress that has characterized the last half century is the result of many separate contributions, each of which has been essential to the overall, evolving technological pattern.
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... In Philaclelphia his scholastic attainments earned him a chemical engineering scholarship to Pennsylvania State University. By living frugally on his $900-a-year scholarship grant ant!
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... UOP also assured its staff of the wide use of successful technical accomplishments. In developing new separation techniques, Broughton relied principally on the use of mathematical models that allowocl him to apply final designs to a wide variety of applications with a high degree of confidence.
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... In 1967 he receiver] the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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