Professor John Garside is a British

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who was the last

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Life

Garside was born 9 October 1941,Debrett's
Prof John Garside, CBE, FREng and studied

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University College, London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

(UCL), gaining BSc in 1963 and PhD in 1966.Trans IChemE, Part A, January 2006 77-80
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before becoming a lecturer, then later a reader in chemical engineering at UCL. During this time he was

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in 1976. In 1982 he was appointed professor and head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMIST. In 2000 Garside became the Vice-Chancellor of UMIST, and oversaw its merger with the

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in 2004. The same year he was appointed a CBE for "services to education". The John Garside building at the University, which houses the

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, was named in his honour. Garside has served as president of the

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and Executive Vice-President of the

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(EFCE). His research interest is

crystallization Crystallization is the process by which solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal. Some ways by which crystals form are precipitating from a solution, freezing, or more rarely deposi ...

. In addition to books and publications on this topic he also chaired the EFCE Working Party on Crystallization. He was elected a

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of the

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in 1988.

Publications

*John Garside & Roger Davey (2000) ''From Molecules to Crystallizers: An Introduction to Crystallization'' (Oxford Chemistry Primers) *John Garside, Alfons Mersmann & Jaroslav Nyvlt (2002)''Measurement of Crystal Growth Rates'' (IChemE, Rugby) *S.J. Jancic, J. Garside (1975) "On the determination of crystallization kinetics from crystal size distribution data" Chemical Engineering Science, 30, (1975) 1299 *S.J. Jancic, J. Garside (1976) "A new technique for accurate crystal size distribution analysis in an MSMPR crystallizer" Industrial Crystallization (edited by J.W. Mullin) Plenum Press, New York 1976 *J. Garside, S.J. Jancic (1976) "Prediction and measurement of crystal size distributions for size-dependent growth", 69-th AICHE Annual Meeting, Chicago, 28 November – 2 December 1976 * O. Söhnel, J. Garside, S.J. Jancic (1977) "Crystallization from solution and the thermodynamics of electrolytes", Journal of Crystal Growth 39, (1977), 307 *J. Garside, S.J. Jancic (1978)"Prediction and measurement of crystal size distributions for size-dependent growth" Chemical Engineering Science, 33, (1978), 1623 *J. Garside, S.J. Jancic(1979) "Measurement and scale-up of Secondary Nucleation Kinetics for the potash alum-water system", ''AICHE Journal'' Vol. 25, no. 6, (1979), 948

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garside, John British chemical engineers 1941 births Alumni of University College London Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Living people Vice-Chancellors of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Chemical engineering academics