Ernst Berl papers

Ernst Berl (1877-1946) was an Austrian-born professor of chemical engineering. After earning his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1901, he worked in academia and private industry, teaching chemical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, Germany from 1919-1933, until he was forced out of his position due to the Nazi prohibition on Jews in academia. Berl immigrated to the United States in 1933, when he was offered a position on the faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 1945. Berl developed dozens of patents for products used in chemical engineering, but is best known for the Berl saddle, used in distillation equipment.