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Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession
by Colin Divall, Sean F. Johnston
from Springer

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  G. N. Lewis, the distinguished physical chemist and leader of the outstanding department at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1912 to World War II, famously rejected chemical engineering as a field of study, advising aspirants to take their degree in chemistry to the engineering school. The success of the discipline in America tends to obscure the reasons for such early resistance. In England, as Divall and Johnston tell us, the scars of the battle are more easily discerned: the efforts of the... more info