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Richard Herman Wilhelm
Richard Herman Wilhelm
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He has been honored a number of times for his outstanding achievements in chemical engineering. Over the years, in the opinion of his associates in the profession, he "stimulated the scientific growth of the whole field of chemical engineering." Born on January 10, 1909, in New York City, Professor Wilhelm was educated in the New York City public schools and held a prize scholarship during his undergraduate years at Columbia University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1931.
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In 1949 Professor Wilhelm, who had directed Princeton's Bicentennial Conference (1946) on "Engineering and Human Affairs," was instrumental in organizing within Princeton's Engineering Science Program a series of studies combining elements of chemical engineering, biology, chemistry, and mathematics, expressly designed to provide an educational background for entry into the biological industry or graduate study in this field.
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Singer, provides an important part of the foundation for any analysis of tubular catalytic reactors. A central idea carried through Professor Wt~lhelm's work in this field is that we must have a detailed knowledge of the local conditions and the local processes taking place in a packed catalytic reactor if we are to do an acceptable job of predicting the behavior of the reactor as a whole.
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A preliminary report describing this new tool was presented to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at its meeting in Houston, Texas, in December 1963. In recent years, Professor Wilhelm's success in testing a principle called "parametric pumping" for separating fluid mixtures attracted attention of scientists throughout the world.
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Dick, as his associates knew him, must have taken for his own the dual injunction: Work as it you were going to live forever; Live as it you were going to die tomorrow. His work stands as his memorial in the literature of his profession; his personality lives in the memory of his friends.
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