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The Leland Lectures
These endowed lectures honor the memory of Professor Thomas
Leland, a distinguished researcher and teacher who had been a member of
our department from the early 1950s until his death in 1986.
Previous Lectures
- John Rowlinson, Oxford Uinversity (1990)
- John Prausnitz, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
- Benjamin Widom, Cornell University (1994)
- Jacob Israelachvili, University of California at Santa Barbara
(1997)
- Roy Jackson, Princeton University (1998)
- L.E. (Skip) Scriven, University of Minnesota (1999)
- Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University (2001)
- Bruce Finlayson, University of Washington (2002)
- Matt Tirrell, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)
- Eduardo Glandt, University of Pennsylvania (2004)
- Carol K. Hall, North Carolina State University (2007)
Thomas W. Leland, Jr.
 Thomas
W. Leland, Jr., was a member of the chemical engineering faculty
at Rice University from September, 1954, until his untimely death
on July 31, 1986. He was chairman of the department from 1965 until
1970 and held the A. J. Hartsook Chair in Chemical En-gineering
during the period 1981-1986.
Professor Leland provided outstanding leadership in both education and research.
He is particularly well known for the development and application of macroscopic
and molecular thermodynamics to the solution of technological and scientific
problems. His inter-disciplinary approach provided generalized solutions
accepted and utilized by both scientists and technologists. Further, his
multidisci-plinary approach to life exemplified by his command and expression
of the language and music as well as science and technology stands as an
example to his students and colleagues.
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