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Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
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His energy, research contributions, applied engineering achievements, and influence on chemical engineering education were prodigious. He was admired and respected by his peers, and countless numbers of them called him friend.
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. During his thirty-nine-year period on MIT'S faculty, Tom's activity included, in addition to a full-time load of teaching, research, and writing, the generation of new subjects in the chemical engineering curriculum, membership on several committees related to improvement of the educational process, and twelve years of primary responsibility for graduate students in chemical engineering.
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. In 1942 he became a Consultant to the Baruch Committee concerned with synthetic rubber development and in the same year Section Chief for Miscellaneous Chemical Engineering Problems, in NDRC'S Chemical Engineering Division.
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Walker Award in 1941, the Founders' Award in 1963, and the Lewis Award in 1972. The American Chemical Society bestowed the Murphree Award on him in 1973.
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