In Memoriam for G. Paul Willhite
Glen Paul Willhite, SPE, former Ross H. Forney Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas, died 15 December 2022. He was 85.
Willhite earned a BS in chemical engineering from Iowa State in 1959 and a PhD in chemical engineering from Northwestern in 1962. He began his career in 1962 when he accepted a position as a research scientist in the production research division at Continental Oil Company in Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he worked for 7 years before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas (KU). His tenure at the university would span over 50 years teaching petroleum and chemical engineering courses before his retirement in 2019.