Geoffrey Hewitt
British chemical engineer (1934–2019)
Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt (3 January 1934 - 18 January 2019) FRS FREng FRSC FIChemE FIMechE was a British chemical engineer , and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London , where from 1993 to 1999 he was the Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering. [1] [2]
Life
Hewitt attended Boteler Grammar School , Warrington [1] and earned a BSc Tech in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology followed by a PhD in the same in 1957. He worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority until 1985 when he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London , being made Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering in 1993 and Emeritus Professor in 1999 till his death. [3]
Honours
Hewitt received honorary degrees from the University of Louvain (1988), [5] and Heriot Watt University (1995). [3] [6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984, [7] and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, [4] In 2007 Professor Hewitt was awarded the Global Energy Prize by Vladimir Putin . [8] He was President of the IChemE for 1989 – 1990 and received its M. M. Sharma Medal for his contributions in 2017. [3]
Works
- Encyclopedia of Heat and Mass Transfer , Hemisphere Publ. Corp., 1986, ISBN 978-0-89116-332-9
- Introduction to Nuclear Power , Taylor & Francis, 1 March 1987, ISBN 978-1-56032-682-3
References
- 1 2 Hewitt, Prof. Geoffrey Frederick . doi : 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20002 . (subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
- ↑ "Home - Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hewitt" . www.imperial.ac.uk . Retrieved 30 December 2018 .
- 1 2 3 4 Shah, Nilay (31 January 2019). "Geoffrey Hewitt: 1934–2019" . www.thechemicalengineer.com . Institution of Chemical Engineers .
- 1 2 "Geoffrey Hewitt" . royalsociety.org . The Royal Society . 2019 . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
- ↑ "Docteurs honoris causa facultaires (EPL)" . Retrieved 23 February 2019 .
- ↑ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates" . www1.hw.ac.uk . Retrieved 4 April 2016 .
- ↑ "List of Fellows" . Royal Academy of Engineering . Retrieved 25 November 2017 .
- ↑ "Geoffrey Hewitt | Global Energy Prize" . globalenergyprize.org . Retrieved 25 November 2017 .
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