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Obituaries

Obituary: Kenneth E. Starling

by Linda Wang
February 22, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 8
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Credit: University of Oklahoma
Kenneth Starling

Kenneth E. Starling, 84, died on Nov. 26, 2019, in Norman, Oklahoma.

“Ken joined the University of Oklahoma in 1966 and taught there for nearly 3 decades. He was well known in the natural gas industry, and his papers have been cited more than 8,000 times. He is perhaps best known for two equations of state: the Benedict-Webb-Rubin-Starling equation and the Carnahan-Starling equation. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2012.”—Brian Grady, friend and colleague

Most recent title: Professor of chemical engineering, University of Oklahoma

Education: BS, chemistry and chemical engineering, Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University–Kingsville), 1957; PhD, chemical engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1962

Survivors: Wife, Barbara; daughters, Stephani and Suzanne; son, Scott; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren

To recognize your late loved one or colleague, submit obituary information at cenm.ag/obits.

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