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Salman, A. S., Ph.D. Thesis on Product Degradation Budapest Technical University, (1988)... 

Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry Budapest Technical University Budapest, Hungary... 

From the mid-1950s, in the training of chemical engineers the Department of Agricultural Chemical Technology of the Budapest Technical University (BME) introduced the training of unit operations of biological industries with practice... 

We express our thanks to those distinguished colleagues who have read one or more chapters and helped us with their criticism and suggestions. They include James M. Bobbit (University of Connecticut), Russel A. Bonham (Indiana University), Arthur Greenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Joel F. Liebman (University of Maryland), Alan L. Mackay (University of London), Alan R Marchand (North Texas State University), Kurt Mislow (Princeton University), Ian C. Paul (University of Illinois), Peter Pulay (University of Arkansas), Robert Schor (University of Connecticut), and Gyorgy Varsanyi (Budapest Technical University). 

L. KOLLAR, City Planning Office, Budapest and K. SZABO, Budapest Technical University. 

For 15 years Lajos Ilosvay was the president of the Section for Chemistry and Mineralogy, followed in this office by the famous organic chemist and professor of Budapest Technical University, Geza Zemplen. 

The three professors (all members of MTA) were V. Wartha, L. Ilosvay and B. Lengyel. V. Wartha (1844-1914) was professor at Budapest Technical University, the first head of the department for chemical technology, a post he held for 42 years until his retirement in 1912. He was a member of MTA. It was his procedure that enabled lie porcelain factory Zsolnay (Pecs) to manufacture its world famous objects with eosin enamel. See Mora in Nagy (1997). For L. Ilosvay and B. Lengyel see notes 9 and 11, respectively. 

E. Wolf (1886-1947) graduated from Budapest Technical University as chemical engineer. He was one of the founders of the renowned Hungarian pharmaceutical factory Chinoin. See Fabian (2005). 

I. Szarvassy (1872-1942) graduated from Budapest Technical University as chemical engineer and obtained his Ph.D. from Budapest University of Sciences. He became head of the department of electrochemistry at Technical University in 1905, a post he held until his death. He was a member of MTA. He dealt with many fields of chemical technology and electrochemistry. See Kenyeres (1969). 

The reaction mechanism of the hydrolytic caprolactam polymerization is rather complex. Early kinetic investigations were carried out between 1940 and 1955 by A. Matthes at Wolfen. The basic reaction mechanism was elucidated during the years 1955 -1960 by P. Wiloth at Glanzstoff and by two Dutch research groups led by P.B. Hermans at Utrecht (A.K.U.) and A.J. Staver-man at Delft (T.N.O.). This extensive work has been reviewed [27, 29]. The investigations on kinetics, equilibria, and mechanism were later considerably extended by H.K. Reimschuessel [27] at Allied, by K. Tai et al. [30] at Unitika and by G. Ber-talan et al. [3lJ at Budapest Technical University. This work now forms a basis for an optimization of the polymerization process [30]. 

Goalie of the soccer team of the Chemistry faculty at the Technical University of Budapest (1952)... 

Zemplen was a strong-minded individualist who opposed any totalitarian system, from Nazism to Communism. He was briefly jailed toward the end of World War II by the Hungarian Fascists for refusing to join in the evacuation of the Technical University to Germany when the Russian armies advanced on Budapest. He was also strongly opposed to the Communists. 

Attila E. Pavlath received his diploma as a Chemical Engineer from the Technical University of Budapest and his Ph D. in chemistry from the Hungarian Academy of Science. He taught at his alma mater before he left Hungary after the 1956 revolution. After spending some time at McGill University in Montreal and Stauffer Chemical in Richmond, California, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Albany, California, in 1967 where he is a research leader. 

George Andrew Olah (1927-) was born in Budapest. Hungary, and received a doctorate in 1949 at the Technical University of Budapest. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956. he immigrated to Canada and joined the Dow Chemical Company. After moving to the United States, he was professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University (1965-1977) and then at the University of Southern California (1977- ). He received the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on carbocations. 

Technical Analytical Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for General and Analytical Chemistry, Technical University, St. Gellert ter 4, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary. 

Department of Chemical Technology, Technical University of Budapest, H-1521 bLaboratorio de Catalise e Materiais, Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal... 

Peter Deak, Physical Institute, Technical University, Budapest 1521 Hungary (49)... 

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