Daniel I-Chyau Wang (；March 12, 1936 – August 29, 2020)
[https://news.mit.edu/2020/daniel-wang-professor-dies-0902) ] was an
Institute Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. Wang received the SB (1959) and SM (1961) from MIT, and the PhD in chemical engineering from the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
in 1963. He joined the MIT faculty in 1965 and was a member both of the
National Academy of Engineering and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
. He has co-authored five books and more than 100 papers in professional journals. He founded the
Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. His research on fermentation, monitoring and control of bioprocesses, renewable resource utilization, enzyme technology, product recovery and purification, protein aggregation and refolding, and mammalian cell cultures made him a pioneer in biochemical and biological engineering.
References
External links
MIT News Office- Institute Professor press release
- Chemical Engineering
DIC Wang GroupNational Academy of Engineering Citation
21st-century American engineers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
2020 deaths
1936 births
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American chemical engineers
American people of Chinese descent
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