Rudolf George Herman Prince AO (2 August 1928 – 3 July 2017), commonly known as Rolf Prince, was a noted chemical engineering academic, specializing in distillation and mass transfer.
[1][2] Prince was born in Chemnitz,[3] Germany on 2 August 1928[4] from a Jewish family.
[5] He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School in Christchurch, then studied chemical engineering and chemistry at Canterbury University College of the University of New Zealand graduating in 1949.
[4] From 1969 to 1994 he was professor and head of the department of chemical engineering at the University of Sydney, remaining there until his retirement in 1998.
[4][6] He married Laurel Williamson (19 November 1926 – 7 April 2018),[7] whom he met while a student.