Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering

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The Ramsay Memorial Chair of Chemical Engineering is a named professorship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, established along with the department and the Ramsay Memorial Laboratory in 1923. [1] [2] The chair was the first created for Chemical Engineering in the United Kingdom. [3] The current professor is Marc-Oliver Coppen, who returned after a year sabbatical in 2020/21.

Ramsay Memorial Professors of Chemical Engineering

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