赵广绪

赵广绪(1925-2013)
赵广绪，1948年毕业于浙江大学化工系，1956年获美国威斯康星大学博士学位。1961年他在美国(AICHE Journal)发表Chao--Seader VLECorrelation。这是石油化工应用最广的相平衡测算方法之一。他先后在伊里诺科技大学、奥克拉荷马州立大学和普度大学培养的博士、硕士研究生60多人，发表论文160多篇。著有《化工热力学》及《状态方程》等专书三卷。
赵广绪学长是普度大学化工系 Harry Creighton Peffer 杰出教授，杰出讲座荣休教授，是著名的热物理专家，是美国化工学会的Fellow, 也是浙江大学及北京化工大学的荣誉教授。
赵学长是美国竺可桢教育基金会第一任秘书长 (1995-1999)，第一任理事会主席(2000-2004)，一直主持基金会的日常工作。赵学长还每年在北美浙大校友会作基金会的工作报告，利用他的广泛影响力为基金会募捐。赵学长和他的太太苏君莹学长(生物48)还一直慷慨捐助现金及书籍给基金会及浙大，迄今共计近一万九千美金。经他的卓越领导及辛勤劳动，基金会不断壮大及成熟，给母校及校友们作出了巨大的贡献。
赵广绪学长在1949年以前毕业的校友中是较年轻的，他又倍受新来美国的校友的尊重，他是新老两代校友之间的自然桥梁。他把冯宗道及周德禄(电机47)这两位杰出的老校友请进了基金会，冯宗道学长及周德禄学长作为理事作出了巨大的贡献，他们还一直慷慨解囊，是基金会主要捐助人。1976年北美浙大校友会成立以后，赵学长一直是很活跃的成员之一，还在1997年担任其主席。

Kwang-Chu Chao
October 13, 2013

Emeritus Professor Kwang-Chu Chao passed away on October 13, 2013. He was a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue between 1968 and 1993, with the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor designation given in 1989. In 1993 he became Emeritus Professor.
Dr. K.C. Chao (BS ‘48 National Chekiang University, China; M.S. ‘52 and Ph.D. ‘56 both University of Wisconsin) was a contemporary and former laboratory partner of Professor Bob Greenkorn, where they both worked for their PhD degrees with the renowned Professor Olaf A. Hougen. Known for the widely used and cited Chao-Seader correlation (this contribution was designated a Citation Classic in 1981), Dr. Chao brought to Purdue not only important industrial experience from his years with Taiwan Alkali Company (1948-1951, 1952-54) and Chevron Research (1957-63), but also academic understanding developed during his years at Illinois Institute of Technology (1963-64) and Oklahoma State University (1964-68). After several changes of scenery, Dr. Chao found a home at Purdue and stayed here for the next 25 years. A meticulous and methodical investigator, he developed an outstanding thermodynamics research group.
Dr. Chao coauthored the book Thermodynamics of Fluids with Dr. Greenkorn published in 1975 by M. Dekker, Inc. An AIChE fellow, Dr. Chao was named Honorary Professor of both the Beijing Institute of Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology and Zhejiang University, and appointed Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor in 1989. He was granted emeritus status in December 1993 and he received the 1994 Donald L. Katz Award of the Gas Processors Association in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in gas processing research and excellence in engineering education. A thermodynamics symposium was held in his honor on September 15, 1995, with a banquet attended by friends, colleagues and former students. Dr. Chao advised 17 and co-advised 12 MS and advised nine and co-advised 18 PhD students. He worked closely with Dr. Greenkorn in thermodynamics research and they co-advised many of these former students.
He will be sorely missed by his family, students, colleagues and friends.