Amundson, Neal

Amundson, Neal R. 1966. Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall. 

NEAL R. AMUNDSON Chairman), University of Houston EDWARD A. MASON Vice-Chairman), Amoco Corporation JAMES WEI Vice-Chairman), Massachusetts Institute of Technology MICHAEL L. BARRY, Vitelic Corporation ALEXIS T. BELL, University of California, Berkeley KENNETH B. BISCHOFF, University of Delaware HERBERT D. DOAN, Doan Associates ELISABETH M. DRAKE, Arthur D. Little, Inc. 

Aris, R. and Varma A. (1980) The Mathematical Understanding of Chemical Engineering Systems Collected Papers of Neal R. Amundson, Pergamon. 

Neal R. Amundson, Series Editor, University of Houston Advisory Editors... 

I learned about chemical reactors at the knees of Rutherford Aris and Neal Amundson, when, as a surface chemist, I taught recitation sections and then lectures in the Reaction Engineering undergraduate course at Minnesota. The text was Aris Elementary Chemical Reaction Analysis, a book that was obviously elegant but at first did not seem at all elementary. It described porous pellet diffusion effects in chemical reactors and the intricacies of nonisothermal reactors in a very logical way, but to many students it seemed to be an exercise in applied mathematics with dimensionless variables rather than a description of chemical reactors. 

Neal Amundson was on sabbatical in Cambridge in the academic year of... 

Chemical engineering became unwaveringly mathematical in the 1950s, led by Neal R. Amundson at the University of Minnesota. Amundson, who actually earned his Ph D. in mathematics, became head of the chemical engineering program at... 

After Neal Amundson s pioneering work on mathematical methods in chemical engineering, numerical procedures penetrated more and more into chemical engineering applications. Forced to reduce the costs and time for the development and design of new chemical processes, mathematical approaches have proved to be indispensable tools. The main advantages of numerical methods in chenndcal engineering are ... 

Caruana, C.M. (1987) Neal Amundson assesses a changing profession, Chem. Eng. Prog., 12, 76-79. 

During the past century a number of well-known researchers performed their doctoral thesis independently or in absentia, and submitted it to a particular school for approval. This is for example the case of Warren McCabe who performed his doctoral work (1928) mostly at MIT but under the nominal direction of Eugene Leslie of Ae University of Michigan. Rutherford Aris did his Sc.D. work at the University of Minnesota but submitted to the University of London (1960). No professor is mentioned as an "academic advisor." A few years ago, Aris asked to be linked to Neal Amundson "as his student," a request that is only natural, since Amundson was his mentor in his early years at Minnesota. 

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