A ChemE Grows in Brooklyn.

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Carol K Hall

Abstract

I profile my personal and professional journey from being a girl of the 1950s, with expectations typical for the times, to a chemical engineering professor and still-enthusiastic researcher. I describe my family, my early education, my college and graduate school training in physics, my postdoc years in chemistry, and my subsequent transformation into a chemical engineering faculty member-one of the first women to be appointed to a chemical engineering faculty in the United States. I focus on the events that shaped me, the people who noticed and supported me, and the environment for women scientists and engineers in what some would call the "early days." My initial research activities centered on applications of statistical mechanics to predict phase equilibria in simple systems. Over time, my interests evolved to focus on applying molecule-level computer simulations to systems of interest to chemical engineers, e.g., hydrocarbons and polymers. Eventually, spurred on by my personal interest in amyloid diseases and my wish to make a contribution to human health, I turned to more biologically oriented problems having to do with protein aggregation and protein design. I give a candid assessment of my strengths and weaknesses, succ...Continue Reading

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Jun 6, 1995·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·B ForoodS E Blondelle
Oct 1, 1990·Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter·C E Soteros, C K Hall
Jan 1, 1996·Physical Review Letters·D RosenbaumC F Zukoski
Nov 10, 2004·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Hung D Nguyen, Carol K Hall
Aug 27, 2010·Proteins·Mookyung CheonCarol K Hall
Feb 4, 2014·Biochemistry·Jessica L SpearsPaul F Agris
May 24, 2014·Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology·Tuomas P J KnowlesChristopher M Dobson
Aug 23, 2016·Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : an Institute of Physics Journal·Alina CiachEnrique Lomba
Apr 7, 2017·Hypertension Research : Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension·Jeffrey S Gilbert
Jan 25, 2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Yiming WangCarol K Hall

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