Education
Rice University.
Rice University.
He was said to be "the most influential biochemical engineer of modern times". In a special issue of a journal dedicated to his work, the editor said "Jay was one of biochemical engineering’s most creative thinkers and spirited advocates, a true innovator who played an enormous role in establishing biochemical engineering as the dynamic discipline it is today". His numerous contributions in biotechnology and metabolic engineering have led to multiple awards including the First Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering.
He is commemorated in the James East. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Biological Engineering, by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Society for Biological Engineering.
Bailey studied chemical engineering at Rice University receiving a Bachelor in 1966 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 working with Fritz Horn. He worked for Shell then taught chemical engineering at the University of Houston starting in 1971 before moving to Caltech in 1980 before becoming Professor of Biotechnology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ) in Zurich in 1992.
He died of cancer 9 May 2001.
Quotations: "Jay was one of biochemical engineering’s most creative thinkers and spirited advocates, a true innovator who played an enormous role in establishing biochemical engineering as the dynamic discipline it is today".