Morton M. Denn | |
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Born | Morton Mace Denn July 7, 1939 Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
Occupation(s) | Rheologist, professor |
Years active | 1965-present |
Title | Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering |
Spouse | Vivienne Roumani |
Children | 3, including Matt Denn |
Awards | Fulbright Lectureship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bingham Medal |
Academic background | |
Education | Princeton University (BScE), University of Minnesota (PhD) |
Thesis | "The Optimization by Complex Processes" (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Rutherford Aris |
Other advisors | William R. Schowalter, Arthur B. Metzner |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Rheology,chemical engineering |
Institutions | University of Delaware,Berkeley,City College of New York |
Notable students | Benny D. Freeman,Rakesh Jain,Yogesh M. Joshi,Glenn Lipscomb [1] [2] |
Morton Mace Denn (born July 7,1939) is a rheologist,chemical engineer,and the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, [3] [4] a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [5] and winner of a Fulbright Lectureship award,Guggenheim Fellowship,and the Bingham Medal. [6] [7] [8] He previously taught at the University of Delaware and the University of California,Berkeley and was the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics from 2001 to 2015. He was also a program leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 16 years. [9] [1]
Denn was born on July 7,1939,in Paterson,New Jersey [1] [2] [10] to Herbert,a drugstore owner,and Esther Denn. He has one sister,Dorothy. [11] [12] During his childhood,Denn was an active member of the Junior Congregation of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Paterson [13] [14] was part of his synagogue's Boy Scout troop, [15] and in 1957 served as the North Jersey Regional President of the Aleph Zadik Aleph youth organization. [16] He graduated from Eastside High School,where he was inducted into the National Honor Society, [17] [18] in 1957. [19] He worked as a laboratory technician for the Linen Thread Company developing foamed plastic boat bumpers the summer before college. [2]
While at Princeton University,he was president of Hillel and a member of the Dial Lodge,Triangle Club,and band. [11] [18] He wrote a senior thesis under William R. Schowalter on normal stress measurements and worked at the Dupont Engineering Research Laboratory [9] [2] during the summers of 1960[ citation needed ] and 1961. He graduated magna cum laude with a BScE in chemical engineering in 1961. He pursued his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota between 1961 and 1964 and wrote his dissertation,"The Optimization by Complex Processes," under the supervision of Rutherford Aris. [1] [2] [9] [11] After finishing his degree,he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Delaware's Chemical Engineering department,studying Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with Arthur B. Metzner. [10] [2] [1]
Denn joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1965 as an assistant professor of computer science;only a quarter of his academic appointment at this time was in chemical engineering. He became an associate professor of chemical engineering in 1968,a full professor in 1971,and the Allan P. Colburn Professor in 1977. [1] [2] [9] He moved to the University of California,Berkeley, [10] as professor of chemical engineering in 1981 and served as the department chair from 1991 to 1994. He simultaneously held an appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,where he was the program leader and founder of the Polymers and Composites Research Program in the Center for Advanced Materials from 1983 to 1999. He also headed the Materials Chemistry group in the Materials Science Division from 1995 to 1998. [1] [9] [2]
Denn joined the faculty of City College of New York [3] in 1999 as CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also held an appointment in the physics department. In 2001,he became the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering [1] [9] and was appointed the third[ citation needed ] director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics,a role he held until 2015. He retired in 2014. [20] [1] [9] Students who worked in his lab include Benny D. Freeman,Rakesh Jain,and Glenn Lipscomb. [1] [2]
During his career,Denn was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-1985);Technion –Israel Institute of Technology (1979-1980);California Institute of Technology (1980);University of Melbourne (1985);Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998-1999,2009–2010);Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011,2014);and University of Amsterdam (2012-2015). [1] [3] [10] He worked as the sole editor [2] of AIChE Journal between 1985 and 1991 and as the editor for the Journal of Rheology from 1995 to 2005. [9] [2] [1] He also worked on the editorial boards for the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (1976-2019),Advances in Chemical Engineering (1984–85,1993–2003),and Rheologica Acta (1995-2005) and as a consulting editor for AIChE Journal from 1991 to 1995.[ citation needed ]
He married Marilyn Goldfarb in Teaneck,New Jersey on June 28,1962 [11] and had three children:Matt, [21] Susannah,and Rebekah. By 1996,he had married historian Vivienne Roumani. [2]
Year | Award/honor | Awarding body | Notes | Ref |
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1971 | Guggenheim Fellowship | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | [7] [9] | |
1977 | Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | [23] [24] [2] | |
1979 | Fulbright Lectureship | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | Project title: "Process dynamics and control and in polymer processing" | [8] [9] |
1980 | Reilley Lectureship | University of Notre Dame | [25] | |
1984 | William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | [26] | |
1986 | Membership | National Academy of Engineering | [1] | |
Bingham Medal | Society of Rheology | For "the use of fundamental concepts in rheology and fluid mechanics for the understanding of practical processing behavior" | [6] [10] | |
1993 | Chemstations Lectureship Division Award | American Society for Engineering Education | [27] | |
1998 | Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | [28] | |
1999 | Institute Lecturer Award | [29] | ||
2001 | Membership | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | [5] | |
Honorary D.Sc. | University of Minnesota | [30] | ||
2005 | Distinguished Service Award | Society of Rheology | [31] | |
2008 | Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | [32] | |
2014 | Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering | American Society for Engineering Education | [27] [1] | |
2015 | Fellow | Society of Rheology | [9] | |
Publication Award | With R. Mari, R. Seto, and J.F. Morris ( doi : 10.1122/1.4890747) | [33] | ||
2020 | With A. Singh, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris ( doi : 10.1122/1.4999237) | [33] |
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