Wilhelm Lectures

Richard H. Wilhelm
Richard H. Wilhelm
This distinguished lectureship honors the memory of Richard H. Wilhelm, a graduate of Columbia University who spent his entire professional career at Princeton University. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1934 and served as chairman from 1954 until his death in 1968. In recognition of his distinguished teaching, he was named Henry Putnam University Professor by Princeton University and given the Warren K. Lewis Award in Chemical Engineering Education by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

For his research leadership in numerous areas of chemical reaction engineering, he received from the AIChE the William H. Walker Award in 1951 and the Professional Progress Award in 1952 and the Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1966. In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional distinction that can be conferred upon an American engineer.

In 1973, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers established the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, presented each year to an individual in recognition of significant and new contributions in the field. The Richard H. Wilhelm Lectureship was established through the generosity of his colleagues, friends, and students.

2024 Wilhelm Lecturer: Jennifer A. Lewis

Jennifer A. Lewis is the Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences, the Wyss Professor for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Her research focuses on digital assembly of soft and living matter, including vascularized human tissues for drug testing, disease modeling, and therapeutic use. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards for her work. Multiple startups are commercializing technology from her lab ranging from drug delivery and kidney therapeutics.


Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Maeder Hall Auditorium

Previous Lecturers in the Series

2022 Bernhard Palsson University of California, San Diego

2019

Paula T. Hammond

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2018

Joseph DeSimone

Carbon, Inc.

2017

Matthew Tirrell

University of ChicagoArgonne National Laboratory

2016

Kristi S. Anseth

University of Colorado at Boulder

2015

Ronald G. Larson

University of Michigan

2014

Enrique Iglesia

University of California at Berkeley

2013

Chaitan Khosla

Stanford University

2012

Klavs Jensen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011

Martin Feinberg

Ohio State University

2010

Lanny Schmidt

University of Minnesota

2009

George Stephanopoulos

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2008

Mark E. Davis

California Institute of Technology

2008

Frances H. Arnold

California Institute of Technology

2006

Frank S. Bates

University of Minnesota

2005

Carol K. Hall

North Carolina State University

2003

John F. Brady

California Institute of Technology

2002

William R. Schowalter

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2001

Alice P. Gast

Stanford University

2001

Charles F. Zukoski

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1999

Cherry A. Murray

Bell LaboratoriesLucent Technologies

1998

Eduardo D. Glandt

University of Pennsylvania

1997

John Villadsen

Technical University of Denmark

1995

Robert A. Brown

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1994

Roger W.H. Sargent

Imperial College of ScienceTechnologyand Medicine

1992

George K. Batchelor

Cambridge University

1991

R. Byron Bird

University of Wisconsin at Madison

1988

John F. Davidson

Cambridge University

1987

George Gavalas

California Institute of Technology

1985

Reuel Shinnar

City College of the City University of New York

1983

Dan Luss

University of Houston

1981

Rutherford Aris

University of Minnesota

1980

John M. Prausnitz

University of California at Berkeley

1979

Roger A. Schmitz

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1978

Neal R. Amundson

University of Houston

1977

Jack B. Howard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1976

Michel Boudart

Stanford University

1975

L.E. Scriven

University of Minnesota