Jack Richardson (chemical engineer)

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John Francis Richardson OBE (29 July 1920 – 4 January 2011) was a UK chemical engineering academic, notable for his research into multiphase flow and rheology, but best known for a series of textbooks.

Life[edit]

Richardson was born 29 July 1920 in Palmers Green, London,[1] and achieved a first class BSc (Eng) in chemical engineering at Imperial College, London, in 1941 and a PhD at the same institution in 1949.[2][3] He joined the academic staff and rose to Senior Lecturer.

In 1946 he was one of the founder members of the Society for International Folk Dancing[1], along with Joan White, whom he married in 1955. They were married until his death.[4] He continued in dancing despite the loss of a leg in 1979.[5]

In 1960 he was appointed Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College Swansea, where he remained till his retirement in 1987.[2] In 1969 he was awarded the Arnold Greene Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and he was its President from 1975 to 1976.[2] He was also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[3] He was awarded the OBE in the 1981 New Year Honours List for services to industry via his work on various government and other committees.[3]

Richardson died on 4 January 2011.[6][7]

Publications[edit]

A full list was published in Chemical Engineering Research and Design in 2006.[8]

Richardson's first paper was on the fire hazards of liquid methane[9] and further papers on fire hazards followed until 1952 when he began to move into multi-phase flow (particularly gas–liquid flows) and rheology which became his main focus: his research was honoured in two issues of Chemical Engineering Research and Design.[2][3]

He co-wrote a textbook on chemical engineering with John Coulson (published in 1954), which developed into an established series of six texts now known as Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering. (He and Coulson were largely responsible for the contents of the first two volumes: they were editors but not prime authors for the rest of the series of six volumes.) He continued editing the series after the death of Coulson in 1990.

  • 1999 Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering, Volume 1, 6th edition, J.M. Coulson and J.F. Richardson, Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • 2001 Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering. Solutions to the Problems in Volume 1, (with J.R. Backhurst and J.H. Harker), Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • 2002 Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering, Volume 2, 5th, edition, J.M. Coulson and J.F. Richardson, Butterworth-Heinemann.

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Chemical Engineer (March 2011) issue 837, p 52 John Francis Richardson (1920–2011)
  2. ^ a b c d P. N. Rowe & G. F. Hewitt (1987) Chemical Engineering Research and Design Vol 65a pages 490–494 "Professor Jack Richardson: An appreciation"
  3. ^ a b c d M. Street (2006) Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol 84(A4) pages 251–252 "Editorial: Special Issue in Honour of Professor Jack Richardson on the Occasion of his 85th Birthday"
  4. ^ The Telegraph 3 February 2011 Obituaries: Jack Richardson
  5. ^ B. Atkinson (2011) The Chemical Engineer, March 2011, p 52, Obituary: John Francis Richardson (1920–2011)
  6. ^ "Appreciation of past Fellows". raeng.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. ^ Flavell-While, Claudia (11 January 2011). "IChemE mourns Jack Richardson". TCE Today.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 84(A4): 328–330 "Publications of Professor Jack Richardson"
  9. ^ J. F. Richardson & J. H. Burgoyne (1948) Fuel, vol 37 p 37– "Fire and explosion hazards associated with liquid methane"

External links[edit]

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