September 2002
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Presentation in memory of Bradford Doctor

The wife of a devoted Bradford Chemical Engineer has been given a special gift in memory of her husband, the University's Dr Narayan Tavare.

The Head of Formulation Engineering Research Centre at the University of Birmingham, Professor Jonathan Seville, presented a special bound edition of the 'Journal of Powder Technology' to Mrs Vasanti Tavare and her two sons, Abhijeet and Aniket.

Left to right: Mrs Tavare and her two sons Abhijeet and Aniket with Professor Jonathan Seville.

This special issue brings together a set of papers from some of the contributors to the second Bradford International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization, held at the University in September 1999.

The conference organiser and guest editor for this issue was Dr Tavare, of the Department of Chemical Engineering, who tragically died before he could complete the task.

Born in 1950 in a small village in India, Dr Tavare spent a brief period as an Associate Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Bombay, before coming to the UK to work as a Research Assistant in the Chemical Engineering Department at University College London (UCL). Over the next 17 years, first at UCL and then at UMIST, Dr Tavare was involved in a wide range of crystallization studies.

Dr Tavare, who died in 2000, was appointed a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Bradford in 1995 and during 2000 was promoted to a Readership. His achievements in the field of industrial crystallization were recognised by the award of a DSc by the University of Manchester in 1995.

Principal and Vice-Chancellor of UMIST, Professor John Garside, said: "Narayan was an extremely loyal colleague, totally committed to both his colleagues and his research. His tragically early death deprived the chemical engineering community in general, and crystallization in particular, of a highly talented man.

"Through the patient co-operation of the contributors it has been possible to realise Dr Tavare's original intentions and this issue stands as a fitting memorial to him."

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