The Ramsay Memorial Chair of Chemical Engineering is a named professorship in the Department of

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

at UCL, established along with the department and the Ramsay Memorial Laboratory in 1923. They are named after

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recipient

William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements ...

. The chair was the first created for Chemical Engineering in the United Kingdom. The current professor is Marc-Olivier Coppens.

Ramsay Memorial Professors of Chemical Engineering

* 1923–1928

E. C. Williams E. C. Williams was the first Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London, as well as the first in the United Kingdom being appointed in 1923. Career Williams previously worked for the University of Manches ...

* 1928–1935

William Edward Gibbs William Edward Gibbs (1890 – 18 January 1934) was the second Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He was the second head of the department replacing the first, E. C. Williams. Career Gibbs completed h ...

* 1934–1937 H. E. Watson * 1951–1965

M. B. Donald Maxwell Bruce Donald (1897 - 6 January 1978) was a Ramsay professor of chemical engineering at University College London and a historian specialising in mining. Early career Donald studied at the Royal College of Science and Massachusetts Insti ...

* 1965–1985 P. N. Rowe * 1985–1991 J. W. Mullin * 1991–1996 A. Cornish * 1996–2003 J. G. Yates * 2003–2012 A. G. Jones * 2012- Marc-Olivier Coppens

References

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