Rutherford Aris, pt. 2

Rutherford Aris remained at the University of Minnesota until his death in 2005, and became a giant in the field of chemical engineering. He wrote thirteen books and over three hundred articles in the field, mentored dozens of graduate students, and held visiting professorships at a number of other universities, including the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton.

See here for a comprehensive bibliography of Aris’s work.

Aris was a leader in the mathematical modeling of chemical processes. He studied why chemical reactions might spin out of control and how engineers could better control them. But his work was not just theoretical; it greatly helped the chemical industry improve its safety and efficiency. His research and scholarship contributed to the University of Minnesota being considered the leading chemical engineering graduate program in the United States.