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ROBERT S. SCHECHTER
Pages 264-273

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From page 265...
... His creativity and contributions earned him much recognition: election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the prime minister of France in 1980, the Billy and Claude R Hocott Distinguished Engineering Research Award in 1984 265
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From page 266...
... , the Joe J King Professional Engineering Achievement Award in 1991, the John Franklin Carll Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 1994, and designation in 2009 as one of the Journal of Petroleum Technology's Legends of Production and Operation.
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From page 267...
... I am forever grateful for that gift, not least because it makes the whole enterprise of research fun. Poetically, it opens the possibility of research being a creative enterprise, more similar to the fine arts than many people r ­ealize -- an activity in which relationships emerge between previously unconnected concepts, objects, or phenomena.
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From page 268...
... The role of accident and serendipity is never discussed, since the blind alleys and wrong hunches don't contribute to the explanation and should not take up space in the journal. But quite often the actual path was tortuous and jumpy and involved wrong turns, backing up, and going around in circles.
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From page 269...
... Gary Pope writes: Bob served as chair of petroleum engineering from 1975 to 1978 and hired me as an assistant professor in 1977. The dean appointed Bob, one of the top professors in the entire university, to rebuild the department.
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From page 270...
... Based on his outstanding research accomplishments, he had already been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest engineering honor in the country. He also had the great respect of his faculty colleagues, the UT administration, and the petroleum industry.
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From page 271...
... In addition to socializing, there was a special activity each year. One year we saw a demonstration of the principle illustrated in the National Commitee for Fluid Mechanics Films feature "Low-Reynolds-Number Flows," showing the reversibility of the flow if diffusion is limited.
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From page 272...
... Bob, however, was always gracious in academic controversies. In one case, fresh out of grad school and working at Chevron, I found that in one of his papers his student had incorrectly tried to find the simultaneous optimum of two functions (solubilization ratio and adsorption in surfactant flooding, I think)
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