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Prof. Arthur B. Metzner memorial service May 11
2:45 p.m., May 9, 2006--Arthur B. Metzner, the University of Delaware's H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, died suddenly on Thursday, May 4, at the age of 79. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 11, at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 13th and Broom streets, Wilmington. Dr. Metzner, a native of Alberta, Canada, received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta in 1948 and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. His academic teaching career began with instructorships at MIT and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Metzner joined the University of Delaware faculty in 1953, was named the H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1962 and served as chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1970-77. “These were exhilarating years in which to be chairman, for the department exhibited the same zeal I'd found in 1953,” he said in a recent interview. Dr. Metzner's industrial and governmental associations of substantial duration were with Air Products, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., Colgate, the Defense Research Board of Canada and the Canadian Defense Research Establishment, Dow, General Motors, Mobil, Merck, NASA, Union Carbide and Westvaco. His research studies were primarily in the areas of the processing of composite materials, polymer processing, fiber spinning and fluid mechanics. His 130 research publications earned awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society of Rheology, the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Chemical Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, an honor that is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field, and received honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and UD. His distinction as an educator and researcher was also recognized when he was presented with the University's highest faculty honor, the Francis P. Alison Award, in 1981. The Arthur B. Metzner Symposium was organized in 1993 to celebrate his 40 years of leadership and service at the University, and the October 1994 issue of the journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research was dedicated to him. Quick to acknowledge the contributions of colleagues in the field, Dr. Metzner said recently, “There were very few associates over the years, both in academia and industry, who were not important mentors to me. And, as the years went by, older mentors were replaced with equally important younger associates. The young mentors in the last decade of my career were no less important than the older people of the first.” Dr. Metzner served on the advisory councils for chemical engineering at McGill University, MIT, Pennsylvania State University and Princeton. He also served on the boards or executive committees of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the American Institute of Physics and the Society of Rheology. A charter member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Newark, Dr. Metzner was a member of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Wilmington. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Elisabeth “Betty” Kruger Metzner; his daughter, Elisabeth Faulkner of Charlottesville, Va.; his son, Arthur P., daughter-in-law, Yemisrach, and grandson, Samuel Metzner, of Fort Washington, Md.; and his daughter, Rebecca, and son-in-law, R. Jeremy Clark, of Rome, Italy. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to The McClellan Scholarship Fund of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 1304 North Rodney St., Wilmington, DE 19806. |
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