Prof. Leo F. Goodwin

Abstract

WE record with regret the death of Lieut.-Colonel Leo Frank Goodwin, professor of chemical engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, on August 15, at the age of sixty-six. He was the elder son of the late Oscar Guttmann, author of "The Manufacture of Explosives" and of "Monumenta Pulveris Pyrii". Prof. Goodwin received his engineering training at the City Guilds Central Technical College and then took his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. He was a member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Engineering Institute of Canada and a fellow of the Institute of Chemistry. He became assistant to Sir William Ramsay at University College and held an assistant professorship for some years at the City College, New York, before taking up his chair at Queen's University. There he inaugurated the first comprehensive course in chemical engineering in the British Empire. An enthusiastic advocate of an undergraduate curriculum for chemical engineers, he probably turned out during the last thirty-five years a larger number of fully qualified and successful chemical engineers than the rest of the British Empire, exclusive of Canada.