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THOMAS J. HANRATTY
Pages 141-146

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... These activities not only provided skills that he would use throughout his life, but also challenged him to discern essential ideas from a large amount of data. He graduated from Villanova University in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and began his engineering career that year at Fischer & Porter Company (Hatboro, PA)
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From page 143...
... He made an immediate impact on the graduate student population, both because he was closer in age to the graduate students than to his faculty colleagues and because of his outgoing nature and sincere interest in the students' research. He also took responsibility for departmental courses in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, and so began a labor of love in teaching chemical engineering students, which continued for more than 50 years.
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... He used the electrochemical methods to study local and fluctuating mass transfer rates to a surface in contact with a turbulent field, and found that the fluctuations had length scales similar to the velocity gradient at the wall, but frequencies an order of magnitude smaller. The resolution of this apparent paradox produced major contributions to the field of turbulent mass transfer.
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... During his long career at Illinois, Hanratty advised a great number of graduate and undergraduate students, directing 77 PhD theses, 78 MS theses, 47 BS theses, and numerous senior research projects. His research with colleagues and students resulted in 256 scholarly publications.
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