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CLAUDE R. HOCOTT
CLAUDE R. HOCOTT
Pages 140-145
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He attended Edinburgh Junior College and later transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied chemical engineering, at the time a relatively new discipline in the College of Engineering. Hocott's studies were interrupted when he had to leave college for a semester to earn money.
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Hocott taught classes in chemical engineering and helped with Schoch's pet research project -- the production of acetylene by passing an electric arc through natural gas. Schoch was greatly disturbed by the sight of the massive flares lighting the Texas Gulf Coast that burned unwanted methane coproduced with the crude oil; he considered this a great waste of an important Texas resource and resolved to do something about it.
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He initially commuted between Houston and Austin, where, in addition to teaching classes in chemistry and chemical engineering, he helped to found the Institute for Christian Studies, now the Austin Graduate School of Theology. Hocott supported the institute through advice and financial support for more than 30 years, and was chancellor at the time of his death.
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Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award as well as the Hocott Lectureship in petroleum engineering. Hocott received considerable recognition for his efforts on behalf of the oil industry, his profession, and higher education.
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