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Edwin Richard Gilliland
Edwin Richard Gilliland
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Ed Gilliland was born in E1 Reno, Oklahoma, on July 10, 1909. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he lived until he entered the University of Illinois to begin his career in chemical engineering.
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Dr. Gilliland was appointed Instructor in 1934, Assistant Professor in 1936, Associate Professor in 1939, and Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1944.
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His publications also included fundamental advances in heterogeneous catalysis, properties of polymers, water desalination, and the rheology of human blood. He became a coauthor in 1937 of the third edition of the classic textbook Principles of Chemical Engineering, by Walker, Lewis, McAdams, and Gilliland.
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His academic research and theoretical work contributed greatly to the solution of real industrial problems, and the stimulation and challenge of the real problems he encountered in his consulting work were carried back to the classroom and to the research lab at MIT to stimulate and challenge generations of his students. Ed Gilliland developed a close association with Bradley Dewey 100
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Ed Gilliland will long be remembered and sorely missed by his many friends and colleagues and by four decades of students who came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study chemical engineering, many of whom were attracted there by the promise of studying under Edwin Richard Gilliland.
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