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Ernest W. Thiele
Pages 268-273

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... then served as a visiting professor of chemical engineering at Notre Dame until 1970. His name was known to every chemical engineer trained after 1927, since by then all departments of chemical engineering were teaching the McCabe-Thiele method for determining clistilIation parameters.
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... House Joint Committee on Atomic Energy investigating the apparent (disappearance of uranium 235 from Argonne Research Laboratories. During his thirty-five years with Standard Oil, he displayed extraordinary creativity in development of new petroleum refining processes.
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... The Department of Chemical Engineering at Notre Dame established the Thiele lectureship in Chemical Engineering in 1986. The lectureship is intended to recognize outstanding contributions by a younger member of the chemical engineering profession.
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... By his passing from this life, the profession of chemical engineering lost one of the premier mincis in our 100-year history en cl a truly admirable en cl good person.
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