Keith Edmund Gubbins

Background

Gubbins, Keith Edmund was born on January 27, 1937 in Southampton, England. Came to the United States, 1962.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Queen Mary College, University London, 1958. Diploma in Chemical Engineering, King's College, University London, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, King's College, University London, 1962.

Career

Visiting lecturer, U. London, England., 1960-1962; postdoctoral fellow, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1962-1964; assistant professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1964-1968; associate professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1968-1972; professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1972-1976; T.R. Briggs professor engineering, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1976; director School Engineering, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1983-1990. Visiting consultant theoretical physics division, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, United Kingdom, 1971. Visiting professor physics department U. Guelph, 1971-1973, 76,U. Kent, Canterbury, England, 1975.

Visiting professor of chemistry U. Oxford, 1979-1980, 86-87. Visiting professor chemical engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1982. Visiting professor Imperial College, London, 1978, McCabe lecturer North Carolina State University, 1986, Lindsay lecturer Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, 1989, Dodge lecturer Yale University, 1990, Katz lecturer University of Michigan, 1991, Wohl lecturer U. Delaware, 1991, Merck lecturer Rutgers University, 1992, Olaf Hougen visiting professor chemical engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1993.

Miles lecturer U. Pittsburgh, 1995, Merck lecturer U. P.R., 1995. Visiting fellow Fulbright Senior scholar Australian National U., 1993-1994. Consultant Mobil Oil, 1979, 80, Exxon Engineering, 1980-1981, Union Carbide Corporation, 1981, Process Simulation International, 1982, National Bureau Studies, 1983, BP Research, United Kingdom, 1985, 89, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Clinton, New Jersey, since 1985, Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, United Kingdom, 1985, Linde division Union Carbide Corporation, 198, Mobil Research, Princeton, 1991, Exxon Chemical Company, 1991, BHP, Melbourne, Australia, 1993, Johnson Matthey, 1994.

Member NAS commission to study formation of National Resource Center for Computing in Chemistry, 1976-1977, National Research Council Assessment Board to review The National Institute of Standards and Technology programs, 1988-1991.

Achievements

• Keith Edmund Gubbins has been listed as a noteworthy chemical engineering educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member National Academy of Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (program committee 1974-1981, Alpha Chi Sigma award 1986, William H. Walker award 2000, fellow 2003), American Chemical Society (Joel Henry Hildebrand award in Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, 2007), American Institute Physics, Chemical Society (London).

Connections

Married Pauline Margaret Payne, June 28, 1960. Children: Nick, Vanessa.

Spouse:

Pauline Margaret Payne

child:

Nick Gubbins

child:

Vanessa Gubbins