Donald Albert Dahlstrom (1920 - June 2004) was recognized by the AIChE as one 100 prominent chemical engineer

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s of the modern era, for his work on liquid-solids separation, particularly with respect to the hydrocyclone. He was a professor in the Chemical Engineering

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 Department of the University of Utah

University of Utah

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, and served as President of the AIChE in 1964.

Dahlstrom graduated from the University of Minnesota

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 and gained his PhD

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 (in metallurgy

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 and chemical engineering) from the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

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 in 1949. He served in the US Navy then worked for Eimco and Envirotech before taking up an academic post at the University of Utah.

External links

• SME 1987 President's Citation Award includes photograph of Dahlstrom