The Consolidation of Chemical Engineering

Executive Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University. 

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Another series was subsequently launched by John Wiley Sons, who also assembled a distinguished advisory board (Fig. 9), theirs consisting of Tom Chilton and his visionary subordinate, Tom Drew, from Du Pont, Donald B. Keyes of the University of Illinois, Kenneth M. Watson of Universal Oil Products near Chicago, and Olaf A. Hougen of the University of Wisconsin. The latter two authored in 1931 a salutary text on Industrial Chemical Calculations, precursor of their pivotal three volumes on Chemical Process Principles. Hougen and Watson held that process problems are primarily chemical and physicochemical in nature, whereas unit-operation problems are for the most part physical [46]. (Incidentally, Wiley Sons did not claim for their series even the second edition of Hitchcock and Robinson s book, which they published.) 

Nothing like these series of books appeared in Europe, where there were neither comparable university courses, nor numbers of students, nor professional society, nor committed industrial executives. 

Chilton, Chem. E. Engineering Department Experimental Station E. 1. du Pont de Nemours 

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