Haslam, Robert

Roberts JA, Marklund BI, liver D, Haslam D, Kaack MB, Baskin G, Louis M, Mollby R, Winberg J, Normark S (1994) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91 11889... 

This, then, was the man who developed the program in chemical engineering so boldly outlined by Little and Walker. He surrounded himself from the beginning with men of promise in their respective fields. These included William McAdams, Clark Robinson, Robert Haslam, Walter Whitman, Harold Weber, and William Ryan, who unfortunately died in 1933. Robinson died in the late 1940 s, Haslam in the early 1960 s and Whitman, Lewis, and McAdams in the early 1970 s. During the period from the mid-1920 s to World War II, Ernst Hauser, Hoyt Hottel, Thomas Sherwood, Edwin CilUland, Herman Meissner, Glenn Williams, and Edward Vivian would be added. These men formed the framework on which the present staff was built. 

One of Lewis strong interests was in combustion, kilns, and gas production. In the early 1920 s, Robert T. Haslam, who had joined the faculty after World War I, chose this part of Lewis interest as his area of specialization and began with Robert P. Russell of the Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry to assemble material for a book. Fuels and their Combustion, an authoritative volume. This field was so important that Haslam considered the possibility of either a separate chemical engineering division in this area or perhaps a separate course. Fuel and gas engineering did, in fact, maintain a separate identity for a period of several years, but returned to chemical engineering in 1932. 

Robert P. Russell and Robert J. Haslam, "Hydrogenation of petroleum," Industrial and engineering chemistry, 22 (1930), 1030-1037. 

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