Geoffrey Hewitt
{{Short description|British chemical engineer (1934–2019)}}
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| birth_name = Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt
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Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt (3 January 1934 – 18 January 2019) was a British chemical engineer, and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, where from 1993 to 1999 he was the Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering.{{cite book |title=Hewitt, Prof. Geoffrey Frederick |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20002 }}{{Subscription or libraries}}{{cite web |title=Home - Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hewitt |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.hewitt |website=www.imperial.ac.uk |accessdate=30 December 2018}}
Life
Hewitt attended Boteler Grammar School, Warrington and earned a BSc Tech in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology followed by a PhD in the same in 1957. He worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority until 1985 when he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, being made Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering in 1993 and Emeritus Professor in 1999 till his death.{{cite web |url=https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/geoffrey-hewitt-1934-2019 |title=Geoffrey Hewitt: 1934–2019 |last=Shah |first=Nilay |date=31 January 2019 |website=www.thechemicalengineer.com |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |access-date= |quote=}}
He died 18 January 2019.{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/geoffrey-hewitt-11610/ |title=Geoffrey Hewitt |author= |date=2019 |website=royalsociety.org |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=1 February 2019 |quote=}}
Honours
Hewitt received honorary degrees from the University of Louvain (1988),{{cite web |title=Docteurs honoris causa facultaires (EPL) |url=https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/events/dhc-facultaires.html |accessdate=23 February 2019}} and Heriot Watt University (1995).{{Cite web|url = http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title = Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last = |website = www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date = 2016-04-04|archive-date = 18 April 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status = dead}}
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984,{{Cite web|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|title=List of Fellows|website=Royal Academy of Engineering|access-date=2017-11-25}} and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, In 2007 Professor Hewitt was awarded the Global Energy Prize by Vladimir Putin.{{Cite web|url=http://globalenergyprize.org/en/laureates/2007/geoffrey-hewitt|title=Geoffrey Hewitt {{!}} Global Energy Prize|website=globalenergyprize.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-25}} 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, {{ISBN|978-0-89116-332-9}}
- Introduction to Nuclear Power, Taylor & Francis, 1 March 1987, {{ISBN|978-1-56032-682-3}}
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Category:British chemical engineers
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Category:Academics of Imperial College London
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology