Roland Clift, CBE is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability.
Clift studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Trinity College), achieving first class honours in 1964. He received a PhD from McGill University in 1970 for work on particle-fluid interactions, and this was his main research area (at McGill and Cambridge then Surrey University) in subsequent years. He became He...
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