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ADEL F. SAROFIM
ADEL F. SAROFIM
Pages 262-267
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His maternal grandfather, Morcos Pasha Simaika, was the founder of the Coptic Museum in Cairo, and his father, Fares Sarofim, was the recipient of an OBE from the British Crown. Upon graduation from the English School in Heliopolis at age 13, three years too young to be eligible to enter Magdalene College at Oxford University, Adel attended the Tunbridge School in England.
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Sarofim spent more than 50 years working on combustion science, which led to advances in the reduction of pollutants released from fossil fuel combustion. His research covered radiative heat transfer, furnace design, circulation patterns in glass melts, the freeze process for desalination, nitric oxide formation in combustion systems, combustion-generated aerosols, soot and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formation, and the characterization of carbon structure and reactivity.
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Lowry Award citation reflects well the sentiments of his colleagues, students, and friends: "Adel Sarofim is a compassionate human being who inspires students and colleagues, and who contributes significantly across the full spectrum from fundamental science through real-world design concepts." In addition to his professional and academic achievements, Adel's personal qualities included a variety of admirable attributes: a strong sense of familial devotion and compassion
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; and never ever missing an opportunity to combine elements of work, travel, and adventure (such as donning an aviator's pressurized flight suit and helmet for a transfer by Navy fighter jet both to and from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt [CVN-71] at sea off the Virginia Capes to enable his participation in a conference of the National Research Council on shipboard pollution control)
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