L.S. Fan wins 2013 AIChE Wilhelm Award

National Academy of Engineering member and Distinguished University Professor L.S. Fan's ground-breaking work has earned him the 2013 AIChE R.H. Wilhem Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering.

The Wilhelm Award is given annually to an individual who has advanced the frontiers of chemical reaction engineering through originality, creativity, and novelty of concept or application. Fan received the award for his sustained and lasting contributions to multiphase reaction engineering and for his pioneering work on ground-breaking clean energy technologies.The award will be presented during the Honors Ceremony at the AIChE Annual Meeting.

Fan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Chemical Society; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Mexican Academy of Science; an academician of Academia Sinica; founding chair of Particle Technology Forum; and a fellow of AIChE. Winners of the Wilhelm Award are not required to be AIChE members.

This award is only the latest in a long line of honors and recognitions. Most recently, Fan was named Innovator of the Year at The Ohio State University (2012). In 2008, he was named one of AIChE's "One Hundred Engineers in the Modern Era" at the AIChE Centennial Celebration. He also received the Joseph Sullivant Medal (2005), the highest honor that The Ohio State University can bestow upon one of its alumni or faculty members for eminent achievements, and which is given only once every five years.