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21, 2003 |
Belfort Named Russell Sage Professor of Chemical
Engineering
Georges Belfort has been named the Russell Sage
Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer.
Belfort has been a chemical engineering faculty
member for 25 years. He is a world-renowned authority on bioseparation,
the science of recovering valuable proteins and other biological
molecules from the complex mixtures in which they are produced.
He's also an expert on the behavior of biological molecules at
solid interfaces.
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Belfort earned his Ph.D. in 1972 and an M.S. in
1969, both in engineering, from the University of California at
Irvine. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering in 1963 from
the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Among his many awards, Belfort earned the American Chemical Society
Award and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award in
Separation Science and Technology in 1995 and 2000, respectively.
He was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical
& Biological Engineering in 1994. He is co-founder and former
president of the North American Membrane Society. He has twice
been a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Belfort is a consultant to industry in the United
States, Europe, and Japan. He serves on the editorial board of
several international journals and is the international editor
of the Chemical Engineering Journal of Japan.
Belfort also is editor or coeditor of three books
and has written more than 140 published reviewed papers and book
chapters. He holds five patents (with other researchers), including
one for producing low protein adhesive surfaces, and one for a
new filter design that self-cleans during filtration.
Many of his former students have received academic
awards and now work as faculty members at universities around
the country and world.
The Russell Sage chaired professorship at Rensselaer
was established in 1938. It was originally endowed by Margaret
Olivia Slocum Sage in memory of her husband, Russell Sage, who
served for 10 years as a Rensselaer trustee.
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