James Young Oldshue was an internationally known chemical engineer with more than a hundred publications in scientific journals, numerous book chapters in textbooks and manuals, many patents, and an important textbook of his own, Fluid Mixing Technology.
Education
Oldshue completed his Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago although his education was interrupted by service on the Manhattan Project from 1944 to 1945 in World World War World War II
Career
From 1950 to 1992, Oldshue worked as Vice President and Director of Research at Lightnin" Mixers Corporation of Rochester, New York and gave his time to both national and international engineering societies, winning numerous engineering awards and honorary degrees including service as President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1979 and election to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering in 1980. In addition, Oldshue gave extensively of himself to his church and the Young Men’s Christian Association. He worked locally for the Young Men’s Christian Association in Rochester and visited more than forty different The Young Men's Christian Association in other countries as part of his work for the national Young Men’s Christian Association organization and its efforts to support and stabilize The Young Men's Christian Association in the Middle East and Africa. In his last years, Oldshue continued to teach highly sought after technical seminars and committed himself to teaching his fellow seniors through the O.A.S.I.S. program funded by Lord and Taylor, offering a course called Science Made Simple in Rochester, Sarasota, Florida and Portland, Oregon.
He died at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, after a brief illness.