Richard S. Stein

Richard S. Stein (born 1925) is an American scientist.

Stein completed undergraduate at Brooklyn Polytechnic, where he performed some of the first studies of the dimensions of polymer molecules in solution using light scattering. Stein joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1950 as an assistant professor and initiated its polymer program. He started the university's Polymer Research Institute, which evolved into the Polymer Science and Engineering Department. Stein later served as Emeritus Goessmann Professor of Chemistry. He has been elected to membership in the National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kyoto University. From 1948 - 1949, he was a National Research Council Fellow at Cambridge University, and from 1949 - 1950, he was Research Associate at Princeton University.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Center for Oral History. "Richard S. Stein". Science History Institute.
  2. ↑ Bohning, James J. (17 June 1987). Richard S. Stein, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by James J. Bohning at The University of Massachusetts on 17 June 1987 (PDF). Philadelphia, PA: The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry.
  3. ↑ "1999 Von Hippel Award - MRS Awards". mrs.org.
  4. ↑ "Symposium to Honor Richard S. Stein, Goessmann Professor of Chemistry Emeritus". umass.edu.
  5. ↑ "NAE Website - Dr. Richard S. Stein". nae.edu.
  6. ↑ http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1177&context=emeritus_sw
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