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Gregory S. Y. Yeh

Professor Emeritus

Location

Chemical Engineering

3042 H.H. Dow
2300 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136

Education

Case Institute of Technology
PhD Polymer Physics ’66

Cornell University
MS Engineering Physics ’59

Holy Cross College
BS Physics ’57

Experience

Positions Held at U-M

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, (1998-Present)
  • Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, (1972-1998)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, (1969-1972)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, (1967-1969)
Academic Positions Held Elsewhere
  • South China University of Technology, (1988, 1989, 1990)
  • University of Ulm, (1973, 1983, 1990)
  • University of Paris, (1984)
  • Mainz University, (1984)
  • University of California at Berkeley, (1981)
  • Technical University of Berlin, (1974)
  • Frei University Berlin, (1974)
  • Max Planck Institute, (1974, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1986)
Technical Experience
  • AMP, Consultant, (1976-1983)
  • Owens-Illinois, Consultant, (1976-1983)
  • Dow Corning, Visiting Scientist and Consultant, (1981)
  • Ford Scientific Research, Visiting Scientist and Consultant, (1970)
  • General Tire, Senior Research Physicist, (1961-1964)
  • Goodyear Tire, Research Physicist, (1960-1961)

Research Interests

Physics and economics of polymers, education and finance

Awards

  • Fulbright Senior Research Awards, 1973, 1983
  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Prize, 1974, 1976
  • Numerous invisted Lectures, Gordon Research Conferences, IUPAC Microsymposium on Morphology (Prague, 1971)
  • Symposia on Supermolecular Structure in Amorphous and Strain-Crystallized Polymers (London, 1974; Kyoto, 1977; Tashkent IUPAC, 1978)