Alan D. English of the DuPont Corporation was an American physicist.
He was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after being nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 1989, [3] for contributions to the development of a description of polymer segmental dynamics from solid-state NMR data, which incorporates the variability of both spatial and temporal coordinates with temperature and is applicable to both semicrystalline and amorphous polymers.
Jacob Klein, is the Herman Mark Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is well known for his work in soft condensed matter, polymer science and surface science.
Reimund Gerhard is a German applied physicist and university professor. Between 1979 and 2006 he used the last name "Gerhard-Multhaupt".
Edwin Lorimer Thomas is the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering at Rice University and served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering from 2011-2017. Thomas earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1963 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 1974. Thomas was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 1985, for being a leading authority on the application of electron microscopy and scattering techniques to problems in polymer structure-property relations and for contributions on mosaic block structure of semicrystalline polymers as well as on the structure of the noncrystalline solid state of glassy polymers.
David Kelly Campbell is an American theoretical physicist and academic leader. His research has spanned high energy physics, condensed matter physics and nonlinear dynamics. He also served as Physics Department Head at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Dean of the College Engineering at Boston University, and Boston University Provost.
Donald Ray Wiff from the Kent State University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 1999, for research in solving mathematically ill-posed problems in polymer molecular weight and mechanical relaxation time distribution functions, and in developing molecular, in situ molecular and nanocomposite polymer concepts for high performance materials and micoelectromechanical system devices.
Elisa Molinari is an Italian physicist from the University of Modena and CNR, Italy. She has been primarily interested in computational materials science and nanotechnologies, and she has been particularly active in the theory of fundamental properties of low-dimensional structures, in the simulation of nanodevices, in the development of related computational methods. She also has a continuing interest in scientific imaging and communication.
Uri Feldman from the Naval Research Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 2000, for original contributions to the study of the atomic structure of highly excited elements, both the development of advanced tools to conduct observations and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting data; and for the application of the physics of highly excited elements to the study of energetic processes in the sun's atmosphere.
Rashmi C. Desai is an Indian-American physicist, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto.
Alamgir Karim, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 2004, for pioneering research on polymer thin films and interfaces, polymer brushes, blend film phase separation, thin film dewetting, pattern formation in block copolymer films, and the application of combinatoric measurement methods to complex polymer physics.
James DeYoreo is the Battelle Fellow and Initiative Lead for the Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales Initiative at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Concurrent with his position at PNNL, he is a member of the graduate faculty, materials science and engineering, University of Washington.
Robert Krasny from the University of Michigan, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2007, for "his many achievements in advancing particle methods and tree-code algorithms to allow exceptionally precise computations of vortex dynamics, and his insightful use of the resulting methods to increase the fundamental understanding of regular and chaotic phenomena in fluid flows." In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
László András Baksay was a Hungarian physicist and academic. He was a former professor and head of the Physics and Space Sciences at the Department of Physics and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology.
James G. Alessi from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Physics of Beams in 2009, for his many groundbreaking contributions to the development of intense negatively charged hydrogen (H-) beam sources, both unpolarized and spin-polarized, and the development of a high intensity Electron Beam Ion Source for the production of beams of high charge state heavy ions.
Jens G. Eggers from the University of Bristol, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2009, for applications of the ideas of singularities to free-boundary problems such as jet breakup, drop formation, air entrainment, thin-film dynamics including wetting, dewetting and contact line motions, and with further applications to polymeric flows and models for granular dynamics.
Hans-Jürgen Troe is a German physicist from the University of Göttingen. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Chemical Physics in 2009, for "experimental and theoretical research on the kinetics of unimolecular reactions of neutral and ionic molecules, and especially for the development of the statistical adiabatic channel model and its application to unimolecular processes from low to high pressures." Was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize in 2015.
Peggy Cebe is a professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Tufts University.
Julia A. Kornfield is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. A world expert in polymer science, Kornfield's research encompasses the development of mega-supramolecular systems for fuel additives and intraocular lenses, as well as the influence of flow on polymer chains.
Karl Frederick Freed is an American theoretical chemist recognized for his research in polymer physics. Freed has spent his academic career in the department of chemistry and the James Frank Institute at the University of Chicago, where he is the Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor emeritus. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and was awarded the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society in 2014 and the Award in Pure Chemistry by the American Chemical Society in 1976.
Rodney Dewayne Priestley is an American chemical engineer and professor at Princeton University. His research considers the phase transitions of polymers and their application in electronic devices and healthcare. In 2020 he was made the Princeton University Vice Dean of Innovation. He was named dean of The Graduate School effective June 1, 2022.
Karen Irene Winey is an American materials scientist and chair of the University of Pennsylvania department of materials science and engineering.