 |  Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 7/e Warren McCabe (Deceased)
Julian Smith,
Cornell University---Ithaca
Peter Harriott,
Cornell University---Ithaca
About the Authors| WARREN L. McCABE (1899–1982) received his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan. He was successively Vice President and Director of Research of the Flintkote
Company, Dean of Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the R. J.
Reynolds Professor in Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He
served one term as President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.JULIAN C. SMITH (B.Chem., Chem.E., Cornell University) is Professor Emeritus of
Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, where he joined the faculty in 1946. He
was Director of Continuing Engineering Education at Cornell from 1965 to 1971, and
Director of the School of Chemical Engineering from 1975 to 1983. He retired from active
teaching in 1986. Before joining the faculty at Cornell, he was employed as a chemical
engineer by E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co. He has served as a consultant on
process development to Du Pont, American Cyanamid, and many other companies, as
well as government agencies. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and a
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.PETER HARRIOTT (B. Chem.E., Cornell University, ScD., Massachusetts Institute
of Technology) is the Fred H. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at
Cornell University. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1953, he worked as a chemical
engineer for E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co. and the General Electric Co. In 1966
he was awarded an NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship for study at the Institute for
Catalysis in Lyon, France, and in 1988 he received a DOE fellowship for work at the
Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. Professor Harriott is the author of Process
Control and Chemical Reactor Design. He is a member of the American Chemical
Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has been a consultant to
the U.S. Department of Energy and several industrial firms on problems of mass transfer,
reactor design, and air pollution control. |
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