Keith E. Gubbins (born January 27, 1937) is a British-born American

chemical engineer A chemical engineer is a professional equipped with the knowledge of chemistry and other basic sciences who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of Product (chemistry), products and deals with ...

who is the W.H. Clark Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering at

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in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is perhaps best known as one of the originators of

statistical associating fluid theory Statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT) is a chemical theory, based on perturbation theory, that uses statistical thermodynamics to explain how complex fluids and fluid mixtures form associations through hydrogen bonds. Widely used in industr ...

(SAFT). Gubbins was elected a member of the

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in 1989 for pioneering development of computer simulation and perturbation theory for extending statistical mechanical techniques to systems of engineering interest.

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He has been the supervisor of 47 PhD students and 53 postdoctoral associates, of whom 56 now hold faculty positions in the United States, Europe (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, UK), Asia (Mainland China, Hong Kong (China), India, Japan, Singapore) and Australia, among them Ravi Radhakrishnan, Coray Colina and George Jackson, FRS.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gubbins, K.E. University of Florida alumni British chemical engineers Scientists from Southampton North Carolina State University faculty 1937 births Living people Alumni of King's College London