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Jacob M. Geist
Jacob M. Geist
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c3 egree in 1942. After spending the nextyear as an instructor in chemical engineering at Penn State, he took a position with Publicker Alcohol Company in July of 1944.
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After spending the next three years as senior lecturer in chemical engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Jack returned to the United States and joined Air Products in November of 1955. At that time Air Products was a fifteen-year-old start-up company in the industrial gas business, just beginning to experience success in developing its founder's concept of the on-site oxygen plant and to establish a position in the production and clistribution of liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen.
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The result of his efforts was a 20 percent improvement in productivity for that particular plant, a greater insight into multicomponent, multiphase heat and mass transfer in these exchangers, and innovative design changes in the main cryogenic heat exchanger that led to significant cost reduction and simplification. His was a key contribution to Air Products achieving a 90 percent worldwide market share as a process licenser and heat exchanger supplier in the baseload LNG business.
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He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1987. Jack Geist made a lasting impact on the cryogenics industry and on the chemical engineering profession.
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