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... JEFFREY S BECK 1962–2012 Elected in 2011 "For discovery and commercialization of selective, environmentally beneficial catalytic routes to major petrochemicals and for leadership in industrial engineering." BY JOSÉ G
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... 20 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES the experiments himself, shoulder-to-shoulder with his technicians. In the first eight years of his professional career he made scientific and technical contributions that most researchers do not achieve in a lifetime.
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... JEFFREY S BECK 21 Some of the commercial technologies based on Jeff's work are PxMaxTM (toluene to paraxylene)
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... 22 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES technicians in broad areas of energy and petrochemical science critical to the company's worldwide Downstream, Chemical, and Upstream businesses. He was instrumental in setting the direction of research programs on renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions.

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