Process pioneer tops New Year list
15 Jan 2000
David Harrison, master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and former president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year's honours list. Harrison's work on bubble formation and coalescence in fluidised beds during the 1960s now forms the foundation for the design of many types of fluidised bed reactor. Tom Blundell, president of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, also receives a knighthood, as does the controversial former BP chairman Bob Horton, now chairman of Railtrack. James McQuaid, chief scientist at the Heath and Safety Executive, is awarded a CB, while Thomas Williams of Albright & Wilson's phosphates group receives an OBE.
