Edward Cussler
Edward L. Cussler Jr (born 1940) is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota who is known for his research in fluid mechanics, mass transport, and novel chemical and biological separations, and for his teaching.
Life
Cussler took a B.E. degree (with honors) at Yale University in 1961 then M.S. at the University of Wisconsin in 1963; and a PhD also at Wisconsin, 1965, where he was a student of Edwin N. Lightfoot.[1] He is married to Betsy (Elizabeth), a former teacher at Edina High School.[1]
After his PhD he did postdoctoral studies at Wisconsin, then University of Adelaide then Yale, and became an academic at Carnegie Mellon University rising to full professor in 1973. His time there included a sabbatical year at Unilever in the UK.[1] He joined the University of Minnesota in 1980.[2] Further sabbaticals were spent at MIT and the University of Cambridge[1] His hobbies include cycle touring with his wife, and he has run the Boston Marathon many times.[1]
Publications
He has authored 5 books and over 210 other publications.[3]
Honors
Professor Cussler has received numerous honors and awards for teaching and research. He was president of the AIChE in 1994.[1][2] He won the 2001 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[4] He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2002, "For pioneering research on membrane transport in chemical and biochemical separation, and for inspiring teaching."[5] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Lund and Nancy.[2]
On a less serious note, he received the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 for an experiment settling whether people could swim faster or slower in syrup rather than water.[6]