Abstract
I will use the opportunity of this lecture to review my academic career that spans the period from nervously submitting my first paper to being editor of the AIChE Journal, and includes among other things writing textbooks, consulting on weapons of mass destruction, and research on classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, computational quantum chemistry to the crystallization of proteins. Travel and visiting professorships have been important in my career, and especially the year I spent at Imperial College almost 40 years ago that provided the opportunity and hospitable environment for writing my first textbook.
Biography
Stanley I. Sandler is the H. B. du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he has previously been head of department and interim dean. He received his B.Ch.E. from City College of New York in 1962 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1966. He has just completed a ten-year term as editor of the AIChE Journal, and continues to serve on the editorial boards of a number of chemical engineering-related journals. He is the author of the 4th and earlier editions of the textbook “Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics” and of “Introduction to Applied Statistical Thermodynamics”, and the author and/or editor of a number of other books. He has authored over 375 papers. Professor Sandler has received numerous awards including the Professional Progress, Warren K. Lewis and Founders Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the E. V. Murphree Award from the American Chemical Society, and he is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineers since 1996 as well as Fellow of the IChemE since 2004. He has been a visiting professor at universities in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. His recent consulting work is on the analysis of processes for the environmentally safe destruction of armed chemical weapons and the stabilization of legacy radioactive wastes from nuclear weapons production.