Gender Male
William Charles Pfefferle, Jr, PhD, 87, loving husband, father, scientist and inventor, and Precision Combustion Chief Scientist and co-founder, died peacefully December 28th following a fall at home. He was a good man, a good husband, and worked his entire life to make the world a better place. A Quaker and pacifist, he sought scientific
solutions to societal problems ranging from energy efficiency to pollution to oil and gas production. The son of a grocery store owner and a burler, he grew up in the Depression, working in the store and selling root beer at industrial sites. In WWII as a twenty year-old 3rd asst engineer in the merchant marine he saved his ship by improvising a repair to a failed engine, escaping a Nazi sub. Earning a Drexel Chemical Engineering degree and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he married Eleanor in 1949, and they had four children with five grandchildren.
