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Events: Wilhelm Lectures

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.

2009 Wilhelm Lecturer: George Stephanopoulos

Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Process Systems Engineering: From Solvay to the 21st Century. A History of Development, Successes and Prospects for the Future
Speaker: George Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Friend Center Convocation Room
Date/Time: Monday, October 26, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Nanoscale Process Systems Engineering: The Controlled Formation of Self-Assembled Nanostructures with Desired Geometries
Speaker: George Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Friend Center Convocation Room
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Previous Lecturers in the Series

1974	James Wei	University of Delaware
1975	L.E. Scriven	University of Minnesota
1976	Michel Boudart	Stanford University
1977	Jack B. Howard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978	Neal R. Amundson	University of Houston
1979	Roger A. Schmitz	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1980	John M. Prausnitz	University of California at Berkeley
1981	Rutherford Aris	University of Minnesota
1983	Dan Luss	University of Houston
1985	Reuel Shinnar	City College of the City University of New York
1987	George Gavalas	California Institute of Technology
1988	John F. Davidson	Cambridge University
1991	R. Byron Bird	University of Wisconsin at Madison
1992	George K. Batchelor	Cambridge University
1994	Roger W.H. Sargent	Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine
1995	Robert A. Brown	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1997	John Villadsen	Technical University of Denmark
1998	Eduardo D. Glandt	University of Pennsylvania
1999	Cherry A. Murray	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
2001	Alice P. Gast	Stanford University
2001	Charles F. Zukoski	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002	William R. Schowalter	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003	John F. Brady	California Institute of Technology
2005	Carol K. Hall	North Carolina State University
2006	Frank S. Bates	University of Minnesota
2008	Mark E. Davis	California Institute of Technology
2008	Frances H. Arnold	California Institute of Technology