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)