Funding biochemical engineering research

By 1958 the reputation of this research group was such that the Guinness Co. funded the establishment of a lectureship in biochemical engineering within the chemical engineering department to which F.C. Webb was appointed in 1958. He came from long experience in the food and allied industries to set up the first one-year postgraduate course in biochemical engineering. He also wrote the first textbook so named. The course was in two streams to suit... 

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