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Richard S. H. Mah
Born(1934-12-16)16 December 1934
Shanghai, China
Died30 May 2004(2004-05-30) (aged 69)
Glenview, Illinois, United States
Alma materImperial College London
Scientific career
FieldsChemical Engineering, Process Systems Engineering
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Doctoral advisorRoger Sargent

Richard S. H. Mah (16 December 1934 – 30 May 2004) was a Chinese-born chemical engineer and professor at Northwestern University in the United States.

Early life and education

Mah was born in Shanghai on 16 December 1934, to parents S. Fabian Soh Pai and E. Shang (Chang).[1] Mah's parents sent him to England in 1950. Mah completed a bachelor's of science in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham,[2] and received his Ph.D. in 1961 from the Imperial College London under the guidance of Roger W. H. Sargent on process systems engineering.[3] Mah became the first Ph.D. graduate from the Sargent research group.[4] Mah moved to the University of Minnesota in 1961 for his postdoctoral work.[2] Mah married Stella Lee in 1962.[2]

Career

Mah worked for Union Carbide between 1963 and 1967, then Esso. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1972 as an associate professor, and retired in 1994 as a professor.[2] Mah was a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,[5] and received its Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, Ernest Thiele Award, and other divisional awards.[1][5] He was also awarded the American Society for Quality Jack Youden Prize.[5]

Books

  • Mah, Richard S.; Seider, Warren D., eds. (1981). Foundations of Computer-Aided Chemical Process Design. New York: Engineering Foundation. 2 volumes[6]
  • Mah, Richard S. H. (1990). Chemical Process Structures and Information Flows. Butterworth.[7]

Death and legacy

Mah died on 30 May 2004 due to a heart attack at the age of 69 in Glenview, Illinois.[5] From 2005, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University held an annual Mah Memorial Lecture in his honor.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mah, Richard S. H." Northwestern University. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Fellers, Li. "DR. RICHARD S.H. MAH, 69". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  3. ^ "Academic Tree of Professor Roger W. H. Sargent: Tree". titan.engr.tamu.edu.
  4. ^ "Academic Tree of Professor Roger W. H. Sargent: Tree". titan.engr.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  5. ^ a b c d "Richard S. H. Mah". Chicago Tribune. 1 June 2004. Retrieved 2 June 2020. Alternative link
  6. ^ Hlavacek, Vladimir (1983). "A review of "Foundations of Computer-Aided Chemical Process Design"Vol. I and II. (Editors, Richard S. Mah and Warren D. Seider), Engineering Foundation, New York 1981, Vol. 1 537 pp. Vol. II. 617 pp". Chemical Engineering Communications. 22 (3–4): 251–252. doi:10.1080/00986448308940059.
  7. ^ Siirola, J. J. (April 1993). "Chemical process structures and information flows. By Richard S. H. Mah, Butterworth, 1990, 500 pp". AIChE J. 39 (4): 730. doi:10.1002/aic.690390430.
  8. ^ "Wei honored with Inaugural Richard S. H. Mah Lecture". Princeton University. 16 August 2005. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Mah Memorial Lectures". Northwestern University. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
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