Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering

The Shell Professors of Chemical Engineering is a professorship at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. It was created in 1945 after a £450,000 donation was made by Shell for the purpose of creating a dedicated chemical engineering department, with Terence Fox serving as the first professor.^[1]

Shell Professors of Chemical Engineering

• 1945–1959:Terence Fox
• 1959–1978:Peter Victor Danckwerts
• 1978–1993:John Frank Davidson
• 1993–2004:John Bridgwater
• 2004–present:Lynn Gladden

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