Edwin N. Lightfoot Scientist

Edwin N. Lightfoot is a Chemical Engineer and the Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in transport phenomena, including biological mass-transfer processes, mass-transport reaction modeling, and separations processes. He, along with R. Byron Bird and Warren E. Stewart, is the author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Lightfoot is a recipient of National Medal of Science in 2004.