![]() ![]() Ask another member of our profession the same question and he might recall that McCabe was among the first to call attention to the usefulness of an enthalpy-concentration diagram for binary solutions-or the first to enunciate the AL law of crystal growth. A colleague once said, "Ask a junior or senior chemical engineering student, or a process design engineer, to identify the name 'McCabe' and they will invariably call to mind one of the co-authors of the McCabe-Thiele graphical methods for design of distillation columns. The name "McCabe" is significantly entwined in the history of chemical engineering. ![]() Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. ![]() WARREN LEE McCABE, recognized as one of the founders of the profession of chemical engineering, and a legend in engineering education for his textbooks and innovative ideas, died in retirement at Black Mountain, North Carolina, on August 24, 1982, just sevenĀ teen days after his eighty-third birthday. ![]()
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