Daniel I-Chyau Wang (；March 12, 1936 – August 29, 2020 ) was a Chinese-American chemical engineer. He was an

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at the

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. He was known for founding the MIT Biotechnology Process Engineering Center and the expansion of the field of biochemical engineering.

Career

Wang received his B.S. (1959) and

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(1961) from the

(MIT), and Ph.D. from in chemical engineering from the

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in 1963 working with Arthur E. Humphrey on high‐temperature short‐time sterilization. Wang joined the MIT faculty in 1965 as a member of the department of Nutrition and Food Science. In 1995, he was named an

. While at MIT, he established joint programs with the

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which would ultimately become a part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre. 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. Wang was a member of the

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, the

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, and

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. He co-authored five books and more than 250 papers in professional journals. He was a co-founder of the Society for Biological Engineering of the

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. In 2019, the

established the D.I.C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering in his honor.

References

External links

MIT faculty webpage
- Chemical Engineering
DIC Wang Group
1936 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American engineers 21st-century American engineers American chemical engineers Chinese emigrants to the United States Engineers from Jiangsu Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of Academia Sinica Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering MIT School of Engineering faculty {{US-engineer-stub