National Academy of Engineering elects Prof

February 13, the National Academy of
Engineering announced the election of
Prof. Csaba Horváth, Roberto C. Goizueta
Professor of Chemical Engineering, to
membership in the National Academy of
Engineering "For pioneering the concept and
the reduction to practice of high-pressure liquid
chromatography (HPLC) and for leadership in
the development of bioanalytical techniques."

In 2002, the American Chemical Society had included Prof. Csaba Horváth in its Chronicles of Chemistry series list of "Luminaries of the Chemical Sciences". It was noted that "Csaba Horváth with J. Calvin Giddings and J.F. K. Huber came up with the concept of the first HPLC instruments." Among the 252 names of chemists and others who contributed to "the development of 20th century chemistry" are also such names as Crick and Watson, Linus Pauling, Pierre and Marie Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.

Also elected to the National Academy of Engineering was Julia M. Phillips '77 MS, '81 Ph.D., Director, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. She was cited "For leadership and distinguished research in the epitaxy of dissimilar materials."

Other Faculty members who are members of the National Academy of Engineering are: Paul A. Fleury, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics, Professor of Physics, and Dean of Engineering; Thomas E. Graedel, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Professor Adjunct of Geology and Geophysics; Prof. T.P. Ma, Raymond John Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering; A. Stephen Morse, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science; Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan, Senior Research Scientist Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Mathematics, and Jerry M. Woodall, C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics.