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LANNY D. SCHMIDT
Pages 318-325

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From page 319...
... Ted Davis) , taking on the challenge of teaching chemical engineering and starting a research program focused on fundamental surface chemistry.
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... Lanny capitalized on his surface chemistry experience, linking fundamental steps of reactant adsorption, surface reaction, and product desorption to develop detailed catalytic reaction models. His group published numerous studies of simple gas-phase reactions on metal surfaces, in many cases directly confirming Langmuir-Hinshelwood ­kinetics, but also revealing the rate-limiting steps as influenced by the choice of catalytic material and reaction conditions.
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From page 321...
... While those studies retained fundamental aspects, Lanny never lost sight of the potential applications. Initially, his forays into practical catalysis involved primarily reactions on unsupported metals, evolving from single crystals to wires and foils, and ultimately to simulations of noble metal mesh catalysts of the types used in the Ostwald process for nitric oxide production and the Andrussow process for HCN synthesis.
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From page 322...
... Following thereafter was a fast ethane ­dehydrogenation technology to mass produce ethylene in fast responding micro­reactors. By developing novel experimental chemical sampling techniques, he was able to deconstruct both the fundamental surface catalysis and reaction sequence lead ing to fast selective chemistry, thereby pushing his students to advance both science and technology in parallel.
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From page 323...
... In 1987 he received the Giuseppe Parravano Memorial Award for Excellence in Catalysis Research and Development from the Michigan Chapter of the North American Catalysis Society; it is presented to a researcher in North America "for outstanding achievement in the conduct of clever, productive, and influential research on problems of central interest and importance in catalysis and related fields." In 1994 he was elected to the NAE and selected for the Humboldt Prize. In 2013 his innovative approaches to research were recognized with the Neal R
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From page 324...
... Kitzman and Amanda Jean (Peter Hans) Docter, four grandchildren, and a legion of Schmidtsters.
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