Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt (3 January 1934 - 18 January 2019) was a British chemical engineer, and

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, where from 1993 to 1999 he was the

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Professor of chemical engineering.

Life

Hewitt attended Boteler Grammar School,

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and earned a BSc Tech in chemical engineering at the

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followed by a PhD in the same in 1957. He worked for the

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until 1985 when he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at

, being made Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering in 1993 and Emeritus Professor in 1999 till his death. He died 18 January 2019.

Honours

Hewitt received honorary degrees from the University of Louvain (1988), and

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(1995). He was elected a

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of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984, and became a Fellow of the

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in 1989, In 2007 Professor Hewitt was awarded the

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. He was President of the IChemE for 1989–1990 and received its M. M. Sharma Medal for his contributions in 2017.

Works

*''Encyclopedia of Heat and Mass Transfer'', Hemisphere Publ. Corp., 1986, *''Introduction to Nuclear Power'', Taylor & Francis, 1 March 1987,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hewitt, Geoffrey British chemical engineers Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Academics of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1934 births 2019 deaths