Robert N.

Maddox
Winslow, AR; Stillwater, OK
BSChE, University of Arkansas, 1948
MSChE, University of Oklahoma, 1950
PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1955
Dr. Maddox taught chemical engineering at OSU
for 36 years, serving as department head from 1958
to 1977. In 1973, he was selected to run the Fluid
Properties Laboratory at OSU.
Maddox, an educator and consultant in the natural gas and oil
business, has consulted with more than 100 corporations. Maddox
has also published numerous technical journal articles, a dozen
handbook chapters, and has authored or coauthored seven books.
He is the only academician to have served on the Editorial Review
Board for the Gas Processors Suppliers Association Engineering
Data Book, having been a member of that board since its inception
in 1965.
Among many awards, Maddox received the Hanlon Award of the
Gas Processors Association for his contributions to the natural gas
industry and was presented the Founders Award by the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. Maddox received an honorary
doctor of science degree from the UA in
1991 for contributions to the natural gas
and petroleum processing industries and
was inducted into the Tower of Old Main
society in 2004.
Maddox has generously supported the
department, including establishing the
R.N. Maddox Distinguished Lecture
Series, the R.N. Maddox Reference Center,
and the Robert Lee and Mabel Nott
Maddox Scholarship.
UA College of Engineering Hall of Fame, 1989.
Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers inaugural induction, 2005.