Randolph Norris Shreve (March 9, 1885 – February 17, 1975) was a, inventor, entrepreneur, educator and collector. After joining the faculty in 1930, he helped to build the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Purdue-Taiwan Engineering Project, and in. He and his wife Eleanor are the namesakes of the Shreve Professorship of Organic Technology and at Purdue, and Shreve Hall on the Cheng Kung University campus. He is the namesake of the Norris Shreve Award for Outstanding Teaching in Chemical Engineering. Shreve was born in on March 9, 1885. After graduating from Ferguson High School in, he was unable to afford college, and instead began work as a laboratory boy at the in St. Asus P5VD2-VM/P5V-VM SE DH Motherboard Support CD.

Louis, where he learned chemistry from Charles Luedeking and William Lamar. Mallinckrodt loaned him enough money to allow him to attend, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1907 after only three years of attendance (a record at Harvard that would remain for more than 40 years). After graduating, he returned to Mallinckrodt, where he became a chemist in the alkaloidal department. Sid Meier&. Lamar and Shreve left Mallinckrodt and St. Louis in 1911 for northern, where Lamar founded Lamar Chemical Works, which Shreve soon took over. At age 29, he founded Shreve Chemical Company, before becoming a chemical engineering consultant in 1919. In 1923 Shreve became the chief stockholder and president of Ammonite Company, which was then based at the Nixon Nitration Works in what is now.

Chemical processing - Chemical processing and the work of the chemical engineer - Water conditioning and environmental protection - Energy, fuels, air conditioning. Chemical Process Industries, Third Edition, R. Norris Shreve, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York (1967). Close author notes. Consulting Chemical Engineer. Search for more papers by this author. First published: March 1968 Full publication history; DOI: 10.1002/aic.690140202.