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Chemistry of Liquids7 and editorship Chemical Engineering out his and admirable career. Admirable, that except for This blot someone who has risen to aha court order the alteration. finally compromised putting Cornelius in parentheses the records." Conrad, Montana, a the east side family lived in his grandfather had left the family home in homestead in West. (A generation earlier the United States from Germany, about the same time his mother's ancestors arrived from through the Depression with the program, and his greener early years some sturdy opinions about an education quest for excited him, a strong motivation college degree School, Pings interested in His grades almost all a senior schml-but and a group friends applied Though the possibility seemed fairly 1947 turned out to a record year make the grade the Institute. admitted-and all five graduated four (Ken Berg a research the Whittaker Corporation in Brewer is Los Gatos and the technical and the Livermore Laboratory.) entered Caltech planning to a nuclear ambition that lasted chemistry immediately filled the the quality instruction he Linus Pauling and Norman and Ernest his instructor ("Anyone who will testify its intellectual Lucas, professor organic chemistry, him most he knows about laboratory of going work eventually took his and student the hope that this eventual technical responsibility in industry, I persisted through a PhD in chemical engineering. some surprise, that in 1955 he found in industry to go alumnus Dave Mason, then set up chemical engineering "I academic life says, "and I've been at it since. So often tell when they for career is that is an that a little can take a northern Greenland, for his reading a notice posted campus bulletin that's where the summers '57. student Mark geology field trip and recruiting then7 job offered-summer distance from Pasadena, outdoor also made good use his research background (heat transfer and thermodynamic^)^ is still proud children are still young ") After four at Stanford, Pings came back to Caltech in 1959 associate professor chemical engineering House. Two cropped up soon after his student-bred faculty members first names. Will professor emeritus chemical engineering, cured that course for fall and Neal Pines some ham stand up in and feel you're conveying knowledge But I - - -? Juggling the his various posts and his (he stopped en route a research the Sandia China Lake the Advisory for a conference the Financial in Higher Education; and he is adrninis- trative representative Associated Universities for Research he attended the campus the Faculty Institute Administrative Committee, the board the Alumni Association, and the faculty as chairman hoc management science, PhD attended three research seminars, in a large number Bringing ability meetings, Pings makes both friends and in the his success surely stem his genuine commit- to do can to help both of thrive, to adapt to taken some razzing about the number and titles he carries, feel that case is people around here are carrying administrative tasks and practicing the trade says, "and it's not all that hard. people and make choices. losing some available time also keeps from getting to make his measurements. But with his research group (smaller in these than it a little more what's going on and trying for Institute Pings since 1952, puts Caltech administrative and faculty committees is a long one, and Hoc the Aims and Goals kind and Rodman Neal since taught him an undergraduate, committee. He recalls all the deliberations Neal and breadth ways. When Institute, it clear that thoroughly briefed. Neal more pointed out that do the through with think it Caltech that Pings says, "Working that committee an institution like this fortunate here that the appointed that into a period when we were going to be were going wanted to