Pol Duwez

{{Infobox scientist | name = Pol Duwez | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = December 11, 1907 | birth_place = | death_date = December 31, 1984 (1985-01-01) (aged 77) | death_place = | residence = Pasadena, CA | citizenship = United States | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Materials Science | work_institution = California Institute of Technology | alma_mater = University of Brussels | doctoral_advisor = Émile Henriot | doctoral_students = [[William Andrew Goddard III][William L. Johnson]] | known_for = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | footnotes = }} Pol Duwez (11 December 1907 – 31 December 1984) was a Belgian-born materials scientist. While working at Caltech in 1960, he first introduced metallic glasses made through rapid liquid cooling using a technique known as Splat quenching.^[1]

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