Charles Cooney
Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Meet Charles Cooney
As a chemical engineer, Charles has always been interested in reaching new frontiers and tackling unresolved issues within the remit of his field. However, over the past five years he has greatly diversified his reading of both scientific and nonfiction literature. “I came to the realization that innovation takes place more often at the interfaces of multiple scientific disciplines, policy, business and society, and that without a deeper understanding of history as the context one cannot appreciate the implications of discovery.”