Richard S. H. Mah (16 December 1934 – 30 May 2004) was a Chinese-born chemical engineer and professor at Northwestern University in the United States.
Mah was born in Shanghai on 16 December 1934, to parents S. Fabian Soh Pai and E. Shang (Chang).
Mah completed a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham,[2] and received his Ph.D. in 1961 from the Imperial College London under the guidance of Roger W. H. Sargent on process systems engineering.
[5] Mah died on 30 May 2004 due to a heart attack at the age of 69 in Glenview, Illinois.
[5] From 2005, the department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University held an annual Mah Memorial Lecture in his honor.