ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews many important inventions by applied scientists and chemical or biomolecular engineers. Notable early contributors to the profession who are discussed in this chapter include:
Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan, the inventors of the first practical semipermeable cellulose acetate membrane for reverse osmosis
the World War II Allied technical team, led by Albert Elder, that created the industrial process for the commercial-scale manufacture of antibiotic penicillin
Norbert Rillieux, the inventor of multi-effect vacuum evaporation
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, the inventors of the process for synthesis of ammonia
Chaim Weizmann, an innovator in acetone-butanol-ethanol industrial fermentation
