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"Atomic Energy Committee" Walter Whitman Signed 3X5.5 Card:
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Walter Gordon Whitman, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the

Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) and a science advisor to the top levels of the State Department, the

Department of Defense, and the United Nations, died at the age of seventy-eight

in Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 6, 1974. Professor Whitman was born November

30, 1895, in Winthrop, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Science degree

in chemical engineering at MIT in 1917 and a Master of Science degree in 1920.

Subsequently, he was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by Northeastern

University in 1954, by Centre College in 1956, and by the University of

Pennsylvania in 1956. Following his graduation from MIT, Whitman remained on

the staff as Instructor and Assistant Professor until 1926. During that time he

made significant contributions to the theory of gas absorption, developing the

"Whitman Two-film Theory of Absorption." Whitman left MIT in 1926 to

join Standard Oil of Indiana, where he rose to become Associate Director of

Research. During this period he made important contributions to the prevention

of corrosion in refineries and to the fundamentals of the cracking of oils. In

1934 Whitman returned to MIT to become Professor and Head of the Department of

Chemical Engineering. He kept this position for twenty-seven years, during

which time he made significant contributions to engineering education. During

this period the department grew in stature and was generally rated the best in

the world. He was elected President of the American Institute of Chemical

Engineers in 1956 and was presented the Founders Award of the Institute in

1960. He was a Member of the American Chemical Society, an Honorary Member of

the American Institute of Chemists, a Councilor of the American Academy of Arts

and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society. During his

long tenure at MIT, Walter Whitman was much sought after to serve his country

in important positions. During World War II he served as Director of the Basic

Chemicals Division, War Production Board. Also, he acted as Chairman of the

Subcommittee on Aircraft Fuels and Lubricants of the National Advisory

Committee for Aeronautics, chaired the so-called Whitman Committee on the

status of jet propulsion, and was a Member of the U.S.- Canadian Ordnance

Committee on Production of Explosives. He returned to MIT in 1948. Returning to

Washington on leave of absence from MIT, Professor Whitman was appointed to the

General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Atomic Energy Committee, remaining a

Member from 1950 to 1956. In addition, he served the Department of Defense as

Chairman of the Research and Development Board from 1951 to 1953. In 1955

Professor Whitman was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Dag

Hammarskjold to the position of Secretary General of the United Nations

Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. The Conference was held in

Geneva, and it was unique in that some 3,000 representatives from both sides of

the Iron Curtain came together, presented about 1,000 papers, and cooperated

wholeheartedly in making the conference a success. The successful outcome of

the conference was due to the consummate skill with which it was organized and

conducted. The outstanding part played by Professor Whitman prompted the U.S.

Delegate to the Conference, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, to mention on her radio

program that he should be considered as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. As

a result of Professor Whitman's many contributions toward international

understanding in science and engineering, on September 4, 1960, Secretary of

State Christian A. Herter appointed him to the position of Science Advisor. He

held this pioneering position in the State Department under the Eisenhower and

Kennedy administrations until June 1962. Obviously, Walter G. Whitman was a

very rare individual, combining numerous theoretical engineering contributions,

as demonstrated in his many research publications and innovative industrial and

educational advancements with superb administrative skills. He provided

outstanding leadership to numerous and varied U.S. Government and United

Nations studies of many critical scientific and technological problem areas.

For all of these many technologically based contributions to industry,

government, and university sectors, Whitman was elected to membership in the

National Academy of Engineering in 1973. The leadership characteristics

exhibited by Walter Whitman stemmed from his engineering training and

knowledge, his quiet, good-humored, and effective administrative skills, and

his broad interests in the social-economic progress of all peoples. Indeed, it

was a great privilege to have had so rare and broad an intellect within the

membership of the Academy.

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