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Robert L. Pigford
Pages 279-284

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... Robert and Marian Pigford moved to Delaware in 1941 when he accepted employment with the DuPont Company, and very shortly thereafter he began his association with the University of Delaware on a part-time basis, teaching evening and weekend courses. His department continues to receive regular requests to this day nearly half a century later for copies of his long out-ofprint textbook, The Application of Differential Equations to Chemical Engineering Problems, which was based on his early lectures at our university and coauthored with another DuPont colleague W
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From page 280...
... Robert Pigford consulted his industrial colleagues about the wisdom of such a move; their response was to advise him to make a listing of the objective advantages of each career alternative. Of course, they were confident that a continuing productive career with the nation's leading chemical company would appear much more attractive than the alternative of work in a fledgling department in an underdeveloped university with no Ph.D.
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From page 281...
... All faculty offices, in those long ago days in Brown Laboratory, were along one corridor: the chairman's at one end and the most recently appointed assistant professor at the other. Robert Pigford simply gathered any papers necessary for a discussion of the issue in one hand and, with a pad and pencil in the other, proceeded to interview each faculty colleague in turn.
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... On the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, he was named as one of thirty foremost leaders of the chemical engineering profession. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1972- one of only a small number of scholars nationally to achieve this dual distinction.
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