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{{Short description|Rheology professor}}
{{Short description|American rheologist}}
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| birth_place = [[Paterson, New Jersey]], USA
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| occupation = [[Rheologist]], professor
| period = 1965-present
| title = Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering
| spouse = [[Vivienne Roumani]]
| children = 3, including [[Matthew Denn|Matt Denn]]
| awards = [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Lectureship]], [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], [[Bingham Medal]]
| education = [[Princeton University]] ([[BSc(Eng)|BScE]]),<br>[[University of Minnesota]] (PhD)
| thesis_title = "The Optimization by Complex Processes"
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| thesis_year = 1964
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Rutherford Aris]]
| academic_advisors = William R. Schowalter, [[Arthur B. Metzner]]
| discipline = [[Rheology]], [[chemical engineering]]
| workplaces = [[University of Delaware]], [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[City College of New York]]
| doctoral_students =
| notable_students = [[Benny D. Freeman]], [[Rakesh Jain]], [[Yogesh M. Joshi]], [[Glenn Lipscomb]]<ref name=aip/><ref name=educator/>
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'''Morton Mace Denn''' (born July 7, 1939) is an Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering Emeritus at the City College of New York (CCNY).<ref name="CCNY">{{cite web |last1=The City College of New York |first1=CCNY |title=M. Denn's profile pqge at the City College of New York |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/morton-denn |website=CCNY}}</ref> He is a member of the National Academy of <ref name="CCNY" />Engineering<ref name="NAE">{{cite web |last1=National Academy of Engineering |first1=NAE |title=Dr. Morton M. Denn NAE's profile page |url=https://www.nae.edu/27997/Dr-Morton-M-Denn |website=NAE}}</ref> and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref name="Amacad">{{cite web |last1=American Academy of Arts ans Science |first1=Amacad |title=Pr Denn's profile as a member of the Amercian academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/morton-m-denn |website=Amacad}}</ref>
'''Morton Mace Denn''' (born July 7, 1939) is a [[rheologist]], [[chemical engineer]], and the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the [[City College of New York]]. He is a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]],<ref name="CCNY">{{cite web|title=Morton Denn|date=13 July 2015 |publisher=City College of New York |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/morton-denn|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref><ref name="NAE">{{cite web |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |title=Dr. Morton M. Denn|url=https://www.nae.edu/27997/Dr-Morton-M-Denn |access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref> a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref name="Amacad">{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/morton-m-denn|title=Morton M. Denn|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref> and winner of a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Lectureship]] award, [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], and the [[Bingham Medal]].<ref name=bingham/><ref name="Guggenheim"/><ref name="Fulbright Lecturer"/> He previously taught at the [[University of Delaware]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and was the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics from 2001 to 2015. He was also a program leader at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]] for 16 years.<ref name=rheology/><ref name=aip/>


==Education==
== Early life ==
Denn was born on July 7, 1939, in [[Paterson, New Jersey]]<ref name=aip/><ref name=educator/><ref name="Berkeley"/> to Herbert, a drugstore owner, and Esther Denn. He has one sister, Dorothy.<ref name=wedding/><ref name=dennsdrugs>{{cite news|title=Herbert P. Denn|newspaper=The Record|location=Hackensack, New Jersey, USA|date=1992-02-15|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record/133092757/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> During his childhood, Denn was an active member of the Junior Congregation of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Paterson<ref>{{cite news|title=Fabian Hebrew School|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1952-03-14|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/133092418/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Fabian School News|newspaper=The News|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1948-01-16|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news/133092552/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> was part of his synagogue's [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] troop,<ref>{{cite news|title=Boy Scout trail|newspaper=The News|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1952-05-02|page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news/133092671/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> and in 1957 served as the North Jersey Regional President of the [[Aleph Zadik Aleph]] youth organization.<ref>{{cite news|title=AZA chapters hold Seder|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1957-04-24|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/133092705/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> He graduated from [[Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)|Eastside High School]], where he was inducted into the [[National Honor Society]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Eastside High honor society inducts gup|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1955-11-17|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/133092367/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref><ref name=hillel/> in 1957.<ref>{{cite news|title=23 EHS students win $76,400 in scholarships|newspaper=The News|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1957-06-20|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news/133092896/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> He worked as a laboratory technician for the Linen Thread Company developing [[Polymeric foam|foamed plastic]] [[Fender (boating)|boat bumpers]] the summer before college.<ref name=educator>{{cite journal|title=Morton M. Denn|last1=Chakraborty|first1=Arup K.|last2=Metzner|first2=Arthur B.|last3=Russell|first3=T.W. Fraser|journal=Chemical Engineering Education|volume=30|number=2|pages=88–93|year=1996|url=https://journals.flvc.org/cee/article/view/123458|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref>
Denn was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Paterson Eastside High School, from which he was graduated in January, 1957. For six months after graduation, prior to attending university, he worked as a laboratory technician for the Linen Thread Company, developing foamed plastic boat bumpers. He received a BSE from Princeton University in 1961, majoring in Chemical Engineering and writing a thesis on the rheology of polymer solutions under the supervision of William R. Schowalter<ref name="William Schowalter">{{cite web |last1=Schowalter |first1=William |title=William Schowalter |url=https://cbe.princeton.edu/people/william-schowalter |website=Princeton university}}</ref>. During the summers of 1960 and 1961 he was employed by the [[DuPont|Dupont Company]], at the Repauno Works in Gibbstown, New Jersey, and the Engineering Research Laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware, respectively.


While at [[Princeton University]], he was president of [[Hillel International|Hillel]] and a member of the [[Eating clubs at Princeton University|Dial Lodge]], [[Princeton Triangle Club|Triangle Club]], and band.<ref name=wedding/><ref name=hillel>{{cite news|title=Hillel director to address unit of B'nai B'rith|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Paterson, New Jersey, USA|date=1961-03-10|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/133092587/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> He wrote a senior thesis under William R. Schowalter on [[Stress_(mechanics)#Definition##Normal and shear|normal stress]] measurements and worked at the [[DuPont|Dupont]] Engineering Research Laboratory<ref name=rheology/><ref name=educator/> during the summers of 1960{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} and 1961. He graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]'' with a [[BSc(Eng)|BScE]] in [[chemical engineering]] in 1961. He pursued his [[PhD]] in chemical engineering at the [[University of Minnesota]] between 1961 and 1964 and wrote his dissertation, "The Optimization by Complex Processes," under the supervision of [[Rutherford Aris]].<ref name=aip/><ref name=educator/><ref name=rheology/><ref name=wedding/> After finishing his degree, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the [[University of Delaware]]'s Chemical Engineering department, studying [[Non-Newtonian fluid]] mechanics with [[Arthur B. Metzner]].<ref name="Berkeley"/><ref name=educator/><ref name=aip/>
Denn attended the [[University of Minnesota]] from 1961 to 1964, majoring in Chemical Engineering and minoring in Mathematics. His Ph.D. Dissertation, Optimization by Variational Methods, was supervised by [[Rutherford Aris]]. He was a postdoctoral fellow from 1964 to 1965 in the chemical engineering department at the [[University of Delaware]], studying rheology with [[Arthur B. Metzner]].


==Career==
==Career==
Denn joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 1965 as an Assistant Professor, with a joint appointment in the departments of Chemical Engineering and Statistics and Computer Science. He was named Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1968, Full Professor in 1972, and the Allan P. Colburn Professor in 1978. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley<ref name="Berkeley">{{cite web |url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/morton-mace-denn|title = Berkeley}}</ref>, as Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1981, and he served as the Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 1991 to 1994. He simultaneously held an appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was the Program Leader for Polymers and Composites in the Center for Advanced Materials (1983-99) and the Head of Materials Chemistry in the Materials Sciences Division (1995 – 98).
Denn joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1965 as an assistant professor of computer science; only a quarter of his academic appointment at this time was in chemical engineering. He became an associate professor of chemical engineering in 1968, a [[full professor]] in 1971, and the Allan P. Colburn Professor in 1977.<ref name=aip/><ref name=educator/><ref name=rheology/> He moved to the [[University of California, Berkeley]],<ref name="Berkeley">{{cite web |url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/morton-mace-denn|title=Morton Mace Denn|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref> as professor of chemical engineering in 1981 and served as the department chair from 1991 to 1994. He simultaneously held an appointment at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], where he was the program leader and founder of the Polymers and Composites Research Program in the Center for Advanced Materials from 1983 to 1999. He also headed the Materials Chemistry group in the Materials Science Division from 1995 to 1998.<ref name=aip/><ref name=rheology/><ref name=educator/>


Denn joined the faculty of the City College of New York<ref name="City College of New York">{{cite web |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/morton-denn|title = City College of New York}}</ref>, the flagship science and engineering campus of the City University of New York, in 1999 as CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. He was the third Director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics and the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering from 2000, and he also held an appointment as Professor of Physics. He retired in 2014 but continued to participate in research through collaborations.
Denn joined the faculty of [[City College of New York]]<ref name="CCNY"/> in 1999 as [[City University of New York|CUNY]] Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also held an appointment in the physics department. In 2001, he became the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering<ref name=aip/><ref name=rheology/> and was appointed the third{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics, a role he held until 2015. He retired in 2014.<ref>{{cite journal|title=People|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|year=2001|volume=79|issue=43|page=77|doi=10.1021/cen-v079n043.p077|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=aip/><ref name=rheology/> Students who worked in his lab include [[Benny D. Freeman]], [[Rakesh Jain]], and [[Glenn Lipscomb]].<ref name=aip/><ref name=educator/>


During his career, Denn was a visiting professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (1978-1985); [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] (1979-1980); [[California Institute of Technology]] (1980); [[University of Melbourne]] (1985); [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] (1998-1999, 2009–2010); [[KU Leuven|Katholieke Universiteit Leuven]] (2011, 2014); and [[University of Amsterdam]] (2012-2015).<ref name=aip/><ref name="CCNY"/><ref name="Berkeley"/> He worked as the sole editor<ref name=educator/> of ''[[American Institute of Chemical Engineers#Publications|AIChE Journal]]'' between 1985 and 1991 and as the editor for the ''[[Journal of Rheology]]'' from 1995 to 2005.<ref name=rheology/><ref name=educator/><ref name=aip/> He also worked on the editorial boards for the ''Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics'' (1976-2019), ''Advances in Chemical Engineering'' (1984–85, 1993–2003), and ''Rheologica Acta'' (1995-2005) and as a consulting editor for ''AIChE Journal'' from 1991 to 1995.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
He has held visiting positions at the following institutions:
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Harry Pierce Professor, Sept., 1979 – Jan., 1980
California Institute of Technology, Chevron Energy Professor, February-July, 1980
University of Melbourne, Australia, Visiting Professor, January-June, 1985
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Forchheimer Visiting Professor, Sept., 1998 – Jan., 1999; Lady Davis Visiting Professor, 2009-2010; Visiting Professor, Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, 2021-22.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Eurorheo program, May-June, 2011, 2014.
University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics, Visiting Scholar, one month annually, 2012-2019.


==Personal life==
He has served as the Editor of two major journals: the AIChE Journal, 1985-91, and the Journal of Rheology, 1995-2005. He also served on the following Editorial Boards: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 1976-2019; Advances in Chemical Engineering, 1984-85,1993-2003; Rheological Acta, 1995-2005; AIChE Journal (Consulting Editor), 1991-95.
He married Marilyn Goldfarb in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]] on June 28, 1962<ref name=wedding>{{cite news|title=Marilyn Goldfarb weds Morton Denn; couple to make home in Minnesota|newspaper=The Herald-News|location=Passaic, New Jersey, USA|date=1962-06-29|page=43|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-news-marriage-of-kebless-de/133092475/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-10-08}}</ref> and had three children: [[Matthew Denn|Matt]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://leadershipdelaware.org/person/matthew-p-denn-esq/|title=Matthew P. Denn, Esq.|publisher=Leadership Delaware|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714192408/https://leadershipdelaware.org/person/matthew-p-denn-esq/|archive-date=2019-07-14}}</ref> Susannah, and Rebekah. By 1996, he had married historian [[Vivienne Roumani]].<ref name=educator/>


==Research and publications==
==Selected publications==
===Articles===
Denn’s research over the course of his career has focused on optimization; process modeling, dynamics, and control; rheology and flow of complex fluids, including polymers and suspensions; polymer processing; and coal gasification reaction engineering. More than forty of his publications have been cited. <ref name="citations of his work in the Google Scholar database">{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GWqVFbkAAAAJ&hl=en|title =citations of Morton Denn's work}}</ref>.
* 1976: "Instabilities in polymer processing." ''[[American Institute of Chemical Engineers#Publications|American Institute of Chemical Engineering]] Journal'', 22(2): 209–236. {{doi|10.1002/aic.690220202}}
* 1976: "Chemical Process Control." With A.S. Foss. ''American Institute of Chemical Engineers Conference Proceedings'' (159): 232.<ref name="AIChE Symposium Series">{{cite web |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/660962|title=Chemical process control / Alan S. Foss and Morton M. Denn, editors; [contributors] O. A. Asbjornsen ... [et al.]|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=2023-10-11}}</ref>
* 1987: "Wall slip and extrudate distortion in linear low-density polyethylene." ''Journal of Rheology'', 31(8): 815–834. With D.S. Kalika. {{doi|10.1122/1.549942}}
* 2001: "Extrusion instabilities and wall slip." ''Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics'', 33(1): 265–287. With C.J.S. Petrie. {{doi|10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.265}}
* 2013: "Discontinuous shear thickening of frictional hard-sphere suspensions." ''Physical Review Letters'', 111(21): 218301. With R. Seto, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris. {{doi|10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.218301}}
* 2017: "Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter." ''Reviews of Modern Physics'', 89(3): 035005. With D. Bonn, L. Berthier, T. Diboux, and S. Manneville. {{doi|10.1103/RevModPhys.89.035005}}


==Books==
===Books===
Optimization by Variational Methods, McGraw-Hill, 1969; reprint edition, Robert Krieger, 1978.
* 1969: ''Optimization by Variational Methods''. [[McGraw-Hill]]. {{isbn|978-0070163959}}. 1978 reprint by Krieger Publishing. {{isbn|978-0882755953}}.
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis (with T. W. F. Russell), Wiley, 1972; Spanish language edition, eds. Limusa, 1976.
* 1972: ''Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis'' with T.W.F. Russell. [[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]. {{isbn|978-0471745457}}.
Stability of Reaction and Transport Processes, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
* 1975: ''Stability of Reaction and Transport Processes''. [[Prentice-Hall]]. {{isbn|978-0138402648}}.
Process Fluid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall, 1980.
* 1980: ''Process Fluid Mechanics''. [[Prentice-Hall]]. {{isbn|978-0137231713}}.
Process Modeling, Longman/Wiley, 1986.
* 1986: ''Process Modeling''. [[Longman]]/[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]. {{isbn|978-0273087045}}
Polymer Melt Processing: Foundations in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008.
* 2008: ''Polymer Melt Processing: Foundations in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer.'' [[Cambridge University Press]]. {{isbn|978-0521899697}}.
Chemical Engineering: An Introduction, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
* 2011: ''Chemical Engineering: An Introduction''. [[Cambridge University Press]]. {{isbn|978-1107669376}}.


=====Edited Volume=====
=== Book chapters ===
* 1979: "Modeling for Process Control" in ''Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems'', ed. C.T. Leondes. [[Academic Press]]. Pages 148–192. {{isbn|978-0120127214}}.
Chemical Process Control (edited with A. S. Foss), AIChE Symposium Series
* 1983: "Fibre Spinning" in ''Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing'', eds. [[John Richard Anthony Pearson|J.R.A. Pearson]] and S.M. Richardson. Applied Science Publishers Ltd. Pages 179–216. {{doi|10.1007/978-94-009-6634-5}}.
<ref name="AIChE Symposium Series">{{cite web |last1=AIChE Symposium Series |title=AIChE Symposium Series |url=https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/en/id/0-12940778X |website=AIChE}}</ref>, No. 159, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 1976.
* 1986: ''Coal Gasification Reactors'' with R. Shinnar in ''Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering'', eds. J.J. Carberry and A. Varna. [[Marcel Dekker]]. Pages 516–561. {{isbn|978-1000103335}}.
* 1998: "Processing, Modeling." ''Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Volume 13'', ed. J.I. Kroschwitz. [[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]. Page 425. Revised version in third edition, 2004, volume 11, page 263.
* 1991: "The Identity of Our Profession." In ''Perspectives in Chemical Engineering: Research and Education (Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 16'', ed. C.K. Colton. [[Academic Press]]. Page 565.


=====Book Chapters=====
==Honors and awards==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
Modeling for Process Control, in Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. XV, C. T. Leondes, ed., Academic Press, 1979, p. 147.
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Fibre Spinning, in Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing, J. R. A. Pearson and S. Richardson, eds., Elsevier Applied Science Publ., 1983, p. 179.
! Year !! Award/honor !! Awarding body !! Notes !! class="unsortable" | Ref
Coal Gasification Reactors (with R. Shinnar), in Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, J. J. Carberry and A. Varma, eds., Marcel Dekker, 1986, p. 499.
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Processing, Modeling, in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, vol. 13, J. I. Kroschwitz, ed., Wiley, 1988, p. 425; revised version in 3rd Ed., vol. 11, J. I. Kroschwitz, ed., Wiley, 2004, p. 263.
| 1971 || [[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1971|Guggenheim Fellowship]] || John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation || || <ref name="Guggenheim">{{cite web |last1=Guggenheim Fellow |title=Guggenheim Fellow |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/morton-m-denn/ |website=Guggenheim}}</ref><ref name=rheology/>
The Identity of our Profession, in C. W. Colton, ed., Perspectives in Chemical Engineering (Advances in Chemical Engineering, 16), Academic Press, NY, 1991, p. 565.
|-
| 1977 || Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering || [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers]] || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://cbe.udel.edu/news/2013/07/08/engineering-honors/|last=Holt|first=Gregory|title=National Society Selects UD's Lee for 2013 Professional Progress Award|date=2013-07-08|publisher=University of Delaware|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/winners/176311|title=Winners: Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering|publisher=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref><ref name=educator/>
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| 1979 || [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Lectureship]] || [[Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs]] || Project title: "Process dynamics and control and in polymer processing" || <ref name="Fulbright Lecturer">{{cite web |title=Fulbright Lecturer |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/morton-denn?year=7040 |website=Fulbright}}</ref><ref name=rheology/>
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| 1980 || Reilley Lectureship || [[University of Notre Dame]] || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://cbe.nd.edu/about-cbe/reilly-lectureship/|title=Reilly Lectureship|publisher=University of Notre Dame|access-date=2023-10-11}}</ref>
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| 1984 || William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature || [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers]] || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/william-h-walker-award-excellence-contributions-chemical-engineering-literature|title=William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature|date=28 March 2012 |publisher=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | 1986 || Membership || [[National Academy of Engineering]] || || <ref name=aip/>
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| [[Bingham Medal]] || [[Society of Rheology]] || For "the use of fundamental concepts in rheology and fluid mechanics for the understanding of practical processing behavior" || <ref name=bingham>{{cite web |url=https://www.rheology.org/sor/Awards/Bingham/DennM/ |title = Morton M. Denn - 1986 Bingham Medalist | publisher = Institute of Rheology}}</ref><ref name="Berkeley"/>
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| 1993 || Chemstations Lectureship Division Award || [[American Society for Engineering Education]] || || <ref name="American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division">{{cite web |title=ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Awards |url=http://ched.asee.org/awards/award-winners/ |website=American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division}}</ref>
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| 1998 || Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education || rowspan="2" | [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers]] || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/warren-k-lewis-award-chemical-engineering-education|title=Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education|date=28 March 2012 |publisher=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| 1999 || Institute Lecturer Award || || <ref name="Institute lecturer at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers">{{cite web |title=Institute lecturer at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers |url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/institute-lecturer-award |website=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|date=28 March 2012 }}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | 2001 || Membership || [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] || || <ref name="Amacad"/>
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| Honorary [[Doctor of Science|D.Sc.]] || [[University of Minnesota]] || || <ref name="Honorary ScD U Minnesota">{{cite web |title=HMorton M. Denn|url=https://uawards.umn.edu/honorary-degree-recipients/morton-m-denn|website=University of Minnesota|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| 2005 || Distinguished Service Award || [[Society of Rheology]] || || <ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www0.rheology.org/sor/publications/Rheology_B/RB2006Jan.pdf|title=Vancovuer 2005|magazine=Rheology Bulletin|date=January 2006|volume=75|issue=1|page=15|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| 2008 || Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering || [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers]] || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/founders-award-outstanding-contributions-field-chemical-engineering|title=Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering|date=28 March 2012 |publisher=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| 2014 || Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering || [[American Society for Engineering Education]] || || <ref name="American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division"/><ref name=aip>{{cite web |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11901003.html |title=Morton M. Denn|publisher=American Institute of Physics|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | 2015 || Fellow || rowspan="3" | [[Society of Rheology]] || || <ref name=rheology>{{cite web|url=https://www.rheology.org/sor/fellowship/DennM|title=Morton M. Denn|publisher=Society of Rheology|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | Publication Award || With R. Mari, R. Seto, and J.F. Morris ({{doi|10.1122/1.4890747}}) || <ref name=publicationaward/>
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| 2020 || With A. Singh, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris ({{doi|10.1122/1.4999237}}) || <ref name=publicationaward>{{cite web|url=https://pubs.aip.org/sor/jor/pages/awards|title=Journal of Rheology Publication Award|publisher=Journal of Rheology|access-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>
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==Honors and Awards==
==External links==
* {{Google Scholar ID|GWqVFbkAAAAJ|Morton Denn}}
Denn was a Guggenheim Fellow<ref name="Guggenheim">{{cite web |last1=Guggenheim Fellow |title=Guggenheim Fellow |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/morton-m-denn/ |website=Guggenheim}}</ref> (1971-72) and a Fulbright Lecturer (1979-80)<ref name="Fulbright Lecturer">{{cite web |title=Fulbright Lecturer |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/morton-denn?year=7040 |website=Fulbright}}</ref>.
* {{ResearchGate|Morton-Denn-2|Morton Denn}}
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and he received an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Minnesota in 2001 <ref name="Honorary ScD U Minnesota">{{cite web |title=Honorary ScD U Minnesota |url=https://scholarswalk.umn.edu/faculty-awards/honorary-degrees |website=U Minnesota}}</ref>.
He has received the following awards from professional societies:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers: Professional Progress Award, 1977; <ref name="American Institute of Chemical Engineers">{{cite web |title=American Institute of Chemical Engineers |url=https://www.aiche.org/awards#institute-awards |website=American Institute of Chemical Engineers}}</ref>, Founders award <ref name="American Institute of Chemical Engineers"/>, and Institute lecturer <ref name="Institute lecturer at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers">{{cite web |title=Institute lecturer at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers |url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/institute-lecturer-award |website=American Institute of Chemical Engineers}}</ref>.
William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, 1984;
Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education, 1998;
Award winner at the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division, 1993 </ref>, and Institute lecturer<ref name="American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division">{{cite web |title=ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Awards |url=http://ched.asee.org/awards/award-winners/ |website=American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division}}</ref>
Institute Lecturer, 1999;
Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, 2008.
Society of Rheology: Bingham Medal, 1986<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rheology.org/sor/Awards/Bingham/DennM/ |title = Institue of Rheology}}[] </ref>;
Distinguished Service Award, 2005;
Publication Award (with R. Mari, R. Seto, and J. F.Morris), 2015;
Publication Award (with A. Singh, R. Mari, and J. F. Morris), 2020.
American Society for Engineering Education: Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award, 2005;
Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering Pedagogy, 2014.
Find the list of awards on his profile in the American Institute of Physics's website<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11901003.html |title = American Institute of Physics}}[] </ref>


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Latest revision as of 09:43, 26 October 2024

Morton M. Denn
Born
Morton Mace Denn

(1939-07-07) July 7, 1939 (age 85)
Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Occupation(s)Rheologist, professor
Years active1965-present
TitleAlbert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering
SpouseVivienne Roumani
Children3, including Matt Denn
AwardsFulbright Lectureship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bingham Medal
Academic background
EducationPrinceton University (BScE),
University of Minnesota (PhD)
Thesis"The Optimization by Complex Processes" (1964)
Doctoral advisorRutherford Aris
Other advisorsWilliam R. Schowalter, Arthur B. Metzner
Academic work
DisciplineRheology, chemical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware, Berkeley, City College of New York
Notable studentsBenny D. Freeman, Rakesh Jain, Yogesh M. Joshi, Glenn Lipscomb[1][2]

Morton Mace Denn (born July 7, 1939) is a rheologist, chemical engineer, and the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,[3][4] a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[5] and winner of a Fulbright Lectureship award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Bingham Medal.[6][7][8] He previously taught at the University of Delaware and the University of California, Berkeley and was the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics from 2001 to 2015. He was also a program leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 16 years.[9][1]

Early life

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Denn was born on July 7, 1939, in Paterson, New Jersey[1][2][10] to Herbert, a drugstore owner, and Esther Denn. He has one sister, Dorothy.[11][12] During his childhood, Denn was an active member of the Junior Congregation of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Paterson[13][14] was part of his synagogue's Boy Scout troop,[15] and in 1957 served as the North Jersey Regional President of the Aleph Zadik Aleph youth organization.[16] He graduated from Eastside High School, where he was inducted into the National Honor Society,[17][18] in 1957.[19] He worked as a laboratory technician for the Linen Thread Company developing foamed plastic boat bumpers the summer before college.[2]

While at Princeton University, he was president of Hillel and a member of the Dial Lodge, Triangle Club, and band.[11][18] He wrote a senior thesis under William R. Schowalter on normal stress measurements and worked at the Dupont Engineering Research Laboratory[9][2] during the summers of 1960[citation needed] and 1961. He graduated magna cum laude with a BScE in chemical engineering in 1961. He pursued his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota between 1961 and 1964 and wrote his dissertation, "The Optimization by Complex Processes," under the supervision of Rutherford Aris.[1][2][9][11] After finishing his degree, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Delaware's Chemical Engineering department, studying Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with Arthur B. Metzner.[10][2][1]

Career

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Denn joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1965 as an assistant professor of computer science; only a quarter of his academic appointment at this time was in chemical engineering. He became an associate professor of chemical engineering in 1968, a full professor in 1971, and the Allan P. Colburn Professor in 1977.[1][2][9] He moved to the University of California, Berkeley,[10] as professor of chemical engineering in 1981 and served as the department chair from 1991 to 1994. He simultaneously held an appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was the program leader and founder of the Polymers and Composites Research Program in the Center for Advanced Materials from 1983 to 1999. He also headed the Materials Chemistry group in the Materials Science Division from 1995 to 1998.[1][9][2]

Denn joined the faculty of City College of New York[3] in 1999 as CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also held an appointment in the physics department. In 2001, he became the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering[1][9] and was appointed the third[citation needed] director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics, a role he held until 2015. He retired in 2014.[20][1][9] Students who worked in his lab include Benny D. Freeman, Rakesh Jain, and Glenn Lipscomb.[1][2]

During his career, Denn was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-1985); Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1979-1980); California Institute of Technology (1980); University of Melbourne (1985); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998-1999, 2009–2010); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011, 2014); and University of Amsterdam (2012-2015).[1][3][10] He worked as the sole editor[2] of AIChE Journal between 1985 and 1991 and as the editor for the Journal of Rheology from 1995 to 2005.[9][2][1] He also worked on the editorial boards for the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (1976-2019), Advances in Chemical Engineering (1984–85, 1993–2003), and Rheologica Acta (1995-2005) and as a consulting editor for AIChE Journal from 1991 to 1995.[citation needed]

Personal life

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He married Marilyn Goldfarb in Teaneck, New Jersey on June 28, 1962[11] and had three children: Matt,[21] Susannah, and Rebekah. By 1996, he had married historian Vivienne Roumani.[2]

Selected publications

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Articles

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  • 1976: "Instabilities in polymer processing." American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal, 22(2): 209–236. doi:10.1002/aic.690220202
  • 1976: "Chemical Process Control." With A.S. Foss. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Conference Proceedings (159): 232.[22]
  • 1987: "Wall slip and extrudate distortion in linear low-density polyethylene." Journal of Rheology, 31(8): 815–834. With D.S. Kalika. doi:10.1122/1.549942
  • 2001: "Extrusion instabilities and wall slip." Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 33(1): 265–287. With C.J.S. Petrie. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.265
  • 2013: "Discontinuous shear thickening of frictional hard-sphere suspensions." Physical Review Letters, 111(21): 218301. With R. Seto, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.218301
  • 2017: "Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter." Reviews of Modern Physics, 89(3): 035005. With D. Bonn, L. Berthier, T. Diboux, and S. Manneville. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.89.035005

Books

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Book chapters

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  • 1979: "Modeling for Process Control" in Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems, ed. C.T. Leondes. Academic Press. Pages 148–192. ISBN 978-0120127214.
  • 1983: "Fibre Spinning" in Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing, eds. J.R.A. Pearson and S.M. Richardson. Applied Science Publishers Ltd. Pages 179–216. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6634-5.
  • 1986: Coal Gasification Reactors with R. Shinnar in Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, eds. J.J. Carberry and A. Varna. Marcel Dekker. Pages 516–561. ISBN 978-1000103335.
  • 1998: "Processing, Modeling." Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Volume 13, ed. J.I. Kroschwitz. Wiley. Page 425. Revised version in third edition, 2004, volume 11, page 263.
  • 1991: "The Identity of Our Profession." In Perspectives in Chemical Engineering: Research and Education (Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 16, ed. C.K. Colton. Academic Press. Page 565.

Honors and awards

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Year Award/honor Awarding body Notes Ref
1971 Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [7][9]
1977 Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers [23][24][2]
1979 Fulbright Lectureship Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Project title: "Process dynamics and control and in polymer processing" [8][9]
1980 Reilley Lectureship University of Notre Dame [25]
1984 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature American Institute of Chemical Engineers [26]
1986 Membership National Academy of Engineering [1]
Bingham Medal Society of Rheology For "the use of fundamental concepts in rheology and fluid mechanics for the understanding of practical processing behavior" [6][10]
1993 Chemstations Lectureship Division Award American Society for Engineering Education [27]
1998 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education American Institute of Chemical Engineers [28]
1999 Institute Lecturer Award [29]
2001 Membership American Academy of Arts and Sciences [5]
Honorary D.Sc. University of Minnesota [30]
2005 Distinguished Service Award Society of Rheology [31]
2008 Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers [32]
2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering American Society for Engineering Education [27][1]
2015 Fellow Society of Rheology [9]
Publication Award With R. Mari, R. Seto, and J.F. Morris (doi:10.1122/1.4890747) [33]
2020 With A. Singh, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris (doi:10.1122/1.4999237) [33]
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