(54b) John Quinn: Advisor, Mentor, and Friend
AIChE Annual Meeting
2016
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division
Tribute to John Quinn: Scholar, Teacher and Mentor (Invited Talks)
Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 4:00pm to 4:15pm
Much of John Quinn's interest and curiosity centered on surfaces and interfacial phenomena. My thesis on interfacial resistance to mass transfer at liquid/liquid interfaces was based on a most unlikely experiment that somehow John knew had a chance of working. This work inspired much of my career. For example, early in my career I made membranes as thin as 10nm, not much more than two surfaces. Later I helped find a catalytic needle in a haystack that saved a business based on a reaction at a solid surface.