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JAMES JOHN CARBERRY passed away on August 27, 2000, at the age of 74. He was a renowned chemical engineering scientist and professor of chemical engineering for 40 years at the University of Notre Dame. He invented the spinning basket reactor, which significantly impacted experimental work in catalytic reaction engineering. He was also a multifaceted renaissance man who enjoyed opera, literature, and college football.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 13, 1925, and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School, where he played as a single-wing halfback on the school football team, with less than notoriety, given the inadequacy of his small frame to play in such sport. During World War II he enlisted in the Navy and served aboard the US Navy Denver Light Cruiser, where he developed his taste for opera to counteract the boredom of life on board.
In 1946, after his Navy tour, Jim enrolled in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame, where he obtained his BSc (1950) and MSc degrees (1951). As an undergraduate he cultivated his interest in Italian opera, in classical music as a member of the Glee Club, and in the humanities (he minored in English literature). He also became a devotee of St. Thomas of Aquinas, who was introduced to him in the required theology course taught by the famed Theodore Hesburgh, who went on to become Notre Dame president for 35 years. Jim’s roommate at Notre Dame was Leon Hart, a Heisman trophy winner, who became his best friend. According to his daughter, Alison Carberry Kiene, the story was that Leon tutored her Dad in freshman chemistry (and laid the foundation for his textbook, Chemical and Catalytic Reaction Engineering) and her Dad helped Leon win the Heisman Trophy with his football knowledge.
Upon graduation in 1951 Jim joined the Explosives Department of the DuPont Company as a process engineer, but his colleagues encouraged him to pursue a PhD at Yale University, where he in enrolled in 1952. At Yale he further cultivated his engineering and other interests, developing a cordial and active professor-student relationship that characterized his later academic rapport with his students.
In 1957 he obtained his PhD in the fluid mechanics of reactors and returned to DuPont Engineering Research Laboratory, a site well known for the presence of many pioneers in the field of chemical and reaction engineering. They became his mentors and prepared him for his future academic career. During this period he also learned catalysis by taking courses at Johns Hopkins University under the famous Paul H. Emmett, one of the authors of the BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) isotherm.
In 1961 Jim returned to Notre Dame as an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department. With the support of the department chairman, the faculty, and (by then) President Hesburgh, the PhD program in chemical engineering was started, and with it a spectacularly fruitful period of maturation for the department.
In 1964 Jim conceived and developed the spinning basket reactor—or, as it is sometimes called, the “Carberry reactor.” This experimental apparatus, which allowed researchers to obtain kinetic information from real catalysts in the absence of diffusional effects, was the precursor of commercial laboratory reactors universally in use today. Jim’s research focused on the kinetics of catalytic reactions in his reactor and on the interaction of chemical and physical effects in catalytic reactors (using numerical simulations partly based on his industrial experience). He is also known for early work on oscillating catalytic reactions, all of which gained him recognition in both academia and industry.
He received numerous awards and recognitions. In 1965–1966 he was an NSF senior fellow at Cambridge University, a position that allowed him to dialogue with the pioneers in the field in the United Kingdom and to lecture extensively in Europe. In 1968 he received the Yale Engineering Association Award for the Advancement of Pure and Applied Science, and in 1972 was one of the cofounders of the US-Soviet Working Group in Catalysis, a bilateral agreement for the exchange of information in catalysis. In 1976 he received the prestigious R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In addition, he was named a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (1979), Sir Winston Churchill Fellow (1979, 1982), and R.K. Mellon Fellow (1979) at Cambridge University’s Churchill College.
He also became a member of the Chemical Engineering Department advisory board of Princeton University (1980–1990), and was named in 1986 a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and in 1987 a visiting and life fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. In 1988 he received the first award for excellence in reaction engineering given by the Autoclave Engineers company, which produced a similar commercial version of his reactor. He was a visiting professor and fellow at Cambridge University in 1991, a visiting fellow at Princeton University in 1996–1997, and a visiting professor at Stanford University in 1985. He cultivated his love for things Italian by lecturing at the University of Naples, the University of Rome, and the Politecnico di Milano.
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