Paul Burg Weisz

Background

Weisz, Paul Burg was born on July 2, 1919 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Naturalized, 1946. Son of Alexander and Amalia (Sulc) Weisz.

Education

Student, Technology University Berlin, 1937—1939. Bachelor of Science, Auburn University, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1966.

Doctor of Science (honorary), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1980.

Career

Research physicist Bartol Research Foundation, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1940—1946. From research associate to senior scientist Mobil Oil Corporation, 1946—1961, manager, corporation central research laboratory Princeton, New Jersey, 1969—1984. Distinguished professor chemical and bio-engineering science University Pennsylvania, 1984—1991, professor emeritus, since 1991.

Instructor electrical engineering Swarthmore College, 1942—1943. With radiation laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944—1945. Visiting professor Princeton University, 1974—1976, member advisory council, department chemical engineering, 1975—1976, member advisory committee, School Engineering, 1977—1980, Pennsylvania State University, 1996—1999.

Chairman center policy board Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, University Delaware, 1977—1981. Consultant natural energy needs President Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa, 1989. Member energy research advisory board United States Secretaries of Energy, 1985—1990.

Consultant Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceutical Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, 1990—1992. Adjunct professor Pennsylvania State University, since 1993. Member advisory committee, future direction chemical related science President Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1992.

Consultant research and technical strategy.

Achievements

• Paul Burg Weisz has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, chemical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Advances in Catalysis and Related Subjects, Vol. XII
  • Angiogenesis: Key Principles, Science, Technology, Medicine (Experientia Supplementum, No. 61)
  • Kinetics and catalysis (Chemical engineering progress symposium series, no. 73, v. 63, 1967)

Membership

Fellow: National Academy of Engineering (elected member 1977), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (R.H. Wilhelm award 1978), American Institute Chemistry (Chemical Pioneer award 1974), American Physical Society. Member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society (science award South Jersey section 1963, E.V. Murphree award 1972, 1977, Chemistry of Contemporary Technology Problems award 1986, Carothers award 1987), Nassau Club (Princeton).

Connections

Married Rhoda A.M. Burg, September 4, 1943. Children: Ingrid B., P. Randall.

Father:

Alexander Weisz

Mother:

Amalia (Sulc) Weisz

Spouse:

Rhoda A.M. Burg

child:

Ingrid B. Weisz

child:

P. Randall Weisz