Paul Hugh Emmett

Catalysis has lost a great leader. For over 60 years the creative genius of Paul Hugh Emmett challenged and stimulated the catalysis community worldwide. The techniques he developed and the mechanistic studies he directed have been vitally important in transforming catalysis from an empirical art into a highly sophisticated science. Loved and admired by all who knew him, Paul Emmett is remembered as a pioneer whose guidance will be sorely missed. 

A former recipient of the Kendall Award, Paul Hugh Emmett, is flanked on each... 

Paul Hugh Emmett, bom Sep. 22, 1900, in Portland, Oregon, died Apr. 22,1985. 

Their approach was an extension of Irving Langmuir s work, which modeled adsorption of single layers of solvent onto solids. Instead, Stephen Bmnauer, Paul Hugh Emmett, and Edward Teller (BET) considered multilayer adsorption. 

At Cal Tech, Paul Emmett began research with Dr. Arthur F. Benton, who had just recently completed his Ph.D. with Professor Hugh S. Taylor at Princeton University. Dr. Benton had a... 

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