William Dalzell, influential lecturer in chemical engineering at MIT, dies at 84

William H. Dalzell ’58, SM ’60, ScD ’65, a longtime lecturer in chemical engineering at MIT and station director for the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, passed away on April 13 after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 84 years old. The first person in his family to attend college, Dalzell entered MIT in 1954. In an essay for the MIT Office of the First Year, he recalled humorously, “I had no idea what I was doing when I applied for college. There were no computers,…

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