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David M. Himmelblau, the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor Emeritus in Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, died on Apr. 27, 201 1 , at age 87.
An expert in optimization, fault detection and rectification, neural networks, and general process analysis, Himmelblau enjoyed a long career at UT- Austin, where he taught countless students and wrote 1 1 books, including such classic chemical engineering texts as Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering ( 1 962, now in its seventh edition), Process Analysis by Statistical Methods...