Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering
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The Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering is an endowed chair in chemical engineering at the University of Cambridge, one of many endowed chairs at Cambridge. It was created in 1945 after a donation was made by Royal Dutch Shell for the purpose of creating the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Cambridge. Terence Fox served as the first Shell Professor.[1] The donation of £435,000 was, at the time, the second-largest gift the university had been given.[2] At the time of the donation, representatives for Shell argued that the Shell Professors should be paid considerably more than other Cambridge professors, because of the need to compete with industry salaries, but this did not happen.[3]
Chairholders
The Shell Professors have been:[4]
- 1945–1959: Terence Fox
- 1959–1978: Peter Victor Danckwerts
- 1978–1993: John Frank Davidson
- 1993–2004: John Bridgwater
- 2004–present: Lynn Gladden
References
- ^ "Chemical Engineering at Cambridge: Prof. T. R. C. Fox", Nature, 157 (3997): 761–761, June 1946, doi:10.1038/157761c0
- ^ Neild, Robert (2012), The Financial History of Cambridge University, Thames River Press, p. 50, ISBN 9780857285157
- ^ Bridgwater, J. (1996), Fifty Years Young: Products and Processes – The Future of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University Press, p. 4, ISBN 9780521567794
- ^ Shell professor, Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, 5 August 2004, retrieved 18 January 2020