John Cullen (chemical engineer)
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Sir Edward John Cullen FEng PhD DSc (29 October 1926 – 14 January 2018) was a British chemical engineer who was head of the UK Health and Safety Commission and received a knighthood for services to health and safety.
Cullen was born in October 1926 in Bury St Edmonds and attended Culford School.[1] After service in the RAF he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1948, graduating in chemical engineering in 1952, followed by a master's degree in the same subject at the University of Texas as a Fulbright Scholar, returning to Cambridge to do a PhD in gas absorption.[1] He married Betty Hopkins in 1954, and they had four children.[1][2] He died 14 January 2018.[1][2]