Abstract
The first professorship in chemical engineering in Britain (believed to be the first in Europe) was established at UCL in 1923. It was founded in memory of Sir William Ramsay and a thriving department has been active there ever since. The paper describes the early history of the department — research activities, course syllabus and the severe disruption caused by the war of 1939–45. Accelerated growth in the post-war years included a major development of biochemical engineering which began in the early 1950s and the establishment of vigorous research groups in crystallisation, combustion kinetics and fluidisation. The present status and direction is briefly reviewed.
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