Events: The Richard H. Wilhelm Lecture Series

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.

2007 Wilhelm Lecturer: Mark Davis

Mark E. Davis is the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the City of Hope. He has over 350 scientific publications, two textbooks and over 50 patents. Professor Davis is a founding editor of CaTTech and has been an associate editor of Chemistry of Materials and the AIChE Journal. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Colburn and Professional Progress Awards from the AIChE and the Ipatieff, Langmuir and Murphree Prizes from the ACS. Professor Davis was the first engineer to win the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award. He was elected in the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. Professor Davis’ research efforts involve materials synthesis in two general areas; namely, zeolites and other solids that can be used for molecular recognition and catalysis, and polymers for the delivery of macromolecular therapeutics such as nucleic acids. He is the founder of Insert Therapeutics Inc., a company based in Pasadena, CA USA, focused on the use of cyclodextrin-containing polymers for drug delivery applications (www.insertt.com) and Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (www.calandopharma.com) a company based in Pasadena, CA USA that creates RNAi therapeutics. He is currently or has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of Symyx (Nasdaq: SMMX), Alnylam (Nasdaq: ALNY) and NovoDynamics.

Current Wilhelm Lecture Schedule

Monday, February 25, 2008, 4:00 PM
Friend Center 113
"Design of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis"
Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 4:00 PM
Friend Center 113
"Systemic Delivery of siRNA via Targeted Nanoparticles"
Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
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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