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JOHN A. QUINN
JOHN A. QUINN
Pages 291-296
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That year he also received AIChE's Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering 293
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The richness of John Quinn's legacy can be appreciated along three dimensions: in his contributions to chemical engineering science; in his early vision, now uniformly accepted, that chemical engineering principles and methods would prove indispensable to addressing problems and enabling opportunities created by advances in modern biology; and in the personal and professional relationships that he cultivated. A hallmark of John's early research was the design of simple, elegant experiments aimed at elucidating the role of the gas-liquid or liquid-liquid interface in mass transfer across phase boundaries.
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As a consequence of his initiative to extend chemical engineering research to previously unexplored domains, John became familiar with the two largely separate worlds of synthetic and biological systems -- and he was intrigued by the potential for bridging them. For instance, it was not lost on him that the living cell's bilayer lipid membrane was the epitome of the interfacial films he tried to make synthetically.
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Today the importance of chemical engineering is taken for granted not only in classical bioprocess engineering but also in support of modern biotechnology, in biomedicine and drug discovery, and in partnership with the basic biological sciences. But this was far from apparent as John Quinn embarked on his academic career in 1958.
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His personal interests were varied, ranging from woodworking to crossword puzzles to campy movies (Mel Brooks was a favorite) ; and he was an avid reader of everything from the sports pages to the history of science, especially biographies of the physical scientists whom he regarded as forerunners of chemical engineering.
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