30 Authors and Their

Groundbreaking Chemical
Engineering Books

The literature of chemical engineering has defined the discipline, with an impact as powerful
as any of the professions engineering accomplishments. The authors of these books have
created a major part of the heritage and shared experience of all chemical engineers.

AIChEs Centennial Celebration Committee has identified a selection of authors who have
given these important chemical engineering books to the profession.

R. BYRON BIRD H. SCOTT FOGLER OCTAVE LEVENSPIEL

WARREN E. STEWART Elements of Chemical Chemical Reaction
EDWIN N. LIGHTFOOT Reaction Engineering Engineering
Publisher: Prentice Hall Publisher: Wiley
First edition: 1986 First edition: 1962
Latest edition: 2005 (4th) Latest edition: 1998 (3rd)

PHILIP H. GROGGINS* WARREN K. LEWIS*

Unit Processes in Organic Industrial
Synthesis Stoichiometry
From left, Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot in 2001, Publisher: McGraw-Hill (with Arthur Radasch)
with leather-bound 2nd Editions and 62nd First edition: 1935 Publisher: McGraw-Hill
printings of Transport Phenomena. Latest edition: 1952 (4th) First edition: 1923
Transport Phenomena Latest edition: 1937 (3rd;
Publisher: Wiley DAVID M. HIMMELBLAU with Edward R. Gilliland
First edition: 1960 Basic Principles and Calculations as co-author)
Latest edition: 2008 (2nd-Revised; 62 1st- in Chemical
edition printings between 1960 and 2001) Engineering WARREN K. LEWIS*
Publisher: Prentice Hall WILLIAM H. MCADAMS*
DONALD R. COUGHANOWR First edition: 1962 WILLIAM H. WALKER*
Process Systems Analysis and Latest edition: 2003 (7th) Principles of
Control (with Lowell Koppel) Chemical Engineering
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publisher: McGraw-Hill
First edition: 1965 First edition: 1923
Latest edition: 2008 (3rd) Latest edition: 1937 (3rd;
OLAF A. HOUGEN* with Edward R. Gilliland
RICHARD M. FELDER KENNETH WATSON* as co-author)
RONALD W. ROUSSEAU Chemical Process Principles, Vol. 1:
Material and Energy Balances Portrait of William H. Walker, William Haynes
Publisher: Wiley Portrait Collection, Courtesy of Chemical
Published: 1943 Heritage Foundation Collections.

Chemical Process Principles, Vol. 2:

Thermodynamics WILLIAM H. MCADAMS*
Publisher: Wiley, Chapman & Hall Heat Transmission
First edition: 1947 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Series in
Richard Felder and Ronald Rousseau Latest printing: 1949 (5th) Chemical Engineering
First edition: 1933
Elementary Principles of Chemical Process Principles, Vol. 3: Latest edition: 1954 (3rd)
Chemical Processes Kinetics & Catalysis
Publisher: Wiley Publisher: Wiley
First edition: 1978 First edition: 1947
Latest edition: 2000 (3rd) Latest printing: 1949 (3rd)

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WARREN MCCABE* J. D. (BOB) SEADER JOE MAUK SMITH*
Elements of Chemical Engineering Separation Process Introduction to Chemical
(with Walter L. Badger) Principles Engineering Thermodynamics
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (with Ernest J. Henley) Publisher: McGraw-Hill
First edition: 1931 Publisher: Wiley First edition: 1949
Latest edition: 1936 (2nd) First edition: 1998 Latest edition: 2001 (6th)
Latest edition: 2005 (2nd) (Hendrick C. van Ness became
Unit Operations of Chemical co-author with the 1959 second edition)
Engineering (with Julian Smith and
Peter Harriott) ROBERT E. TREYBAL*
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Mass Transfer Operations
First edition: 1956 WARREN D. SEIDER Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Latest edition: 2004 (7th) Introduction to First edition: 1955
Chemical Engineering Latest edition: 1980 (3rd)
DONALD F. OTHMER* and Computer
Kirk-Othmer Calculations FRANK VILBRANDT*
Encyclopedia of (with Alan L. Myers) Chemical Engineering Plant Design
Chemical Technology Publisher: Prentice Hall Publisher: McGraw-Hill
(with Raymond Kirk) Published: 1976 First edition: 1934
Publisher: Wiley Latest edition: 1959 (4th)
Blackwell
First edition: 1947 RALPH T. YANG
Latest edition: 2001 (5th) THOMAS SHERWOOD* Gas Separation by
Donald Othmer, Othmer Collection, Courtesy of Absorption and Extraction Adsorption
Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Processes
First edition: 1937 Publisher: Imperial
JOHN H. PERRY* Latest edition: 1952 (2nd; co-authored College Press
Chemical Engineers Handbook with Robert L. Pigford) Published: 1986
(aka Perrys Handbook) Latest reprint: 1997
(with Robert H. Perry) Applied Mathematics in Chemical
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Engineering (with Charles Reed)
First edition: 1934 Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Latest edition: 2007 (8th) First edition: 1939 FRED ZENZ
Latest edition: 1957 (4th; with Harold S. Fluidization and Fluid-Particle
CLARK ROBINSON* Mickley as senior author) Systems (with Donald F. Othmer)
Elements of Fractional Distillation Publisher: Reinhold
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Books / NORRIS SHREVE* Published: 1960
Blatter Press Chemical Process Industries
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional *Indicates Foundation Age recognitions (i.e., engineers
First edition: 1922 who had attained the equivalent of AIChE Senior
Latest edition: 1939 (3rd) First edition: 1945
Member status during or prior to World War II).
Latest edition: 1991 (5th)
STANLEY I. SANDLER
Chemical, MICHAEL SHULER First editions of many of these ground-
breaking books will be on display at the
Biochemical, and Bioprocess Chemical Heritage Foundations Othmer
Engineering Engineering: Basic Library of Chemical History during
Thermodynamics Concepts AIChEs 2008 Centennial Annual Meeting
Publisher: Wiley (with Fikret Kargi) in Philadelphia (see pg. 23 for information).
First edition: 1977 Publisher: Prentice Hall
First edition: 1992 More for your reading list:
Latest edition: Learn more about chemical engineering
2006 (4th) Latest edition: 2002 (2nd) highlights of the past 100 years at AIChEs
Centennial Web site: www.aiche.org/100/

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