Aubert Y. Coran

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Aubert Y. Coran (1932-2020) was an American scientist noted for his contributions to thermoplastic elastomers and vulcanization chemistry of rubber. In 1983, he won the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, bestowed by the American Chemical Society to individuals "who have exhibited exceptional technical competency by making significant and repeated contributions to rubber science and technology". [1] In 1995, the rubber division of the American Chemical Society bestowed on Coran the Charles Goodyear Medal in honor of his international contributions to polymer science and development. [2]

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Personal

Born 24 March 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. [3] Died on 20 October 2020 in Sarasota, Florida at the age of 88. [4]

Education

In 1955, Coran received a Master of Science Degree from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He completed a doctorate degree in physical chemistry in 1992, at University of Haute-Alsace. [5]

Career

After receiving his MS, Coran went to work for Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri, remaining with the company until his retirement in 1991. [2] During his time with Monsanto, he researched the use of sulfur and accelerators in vulcanizing rubber [6] and helped develop Santoprene [7] , Santogard PVA and Vocol accelerator. In the years 1978-1983, Coran served as the 6th editor of the scientific journal Rubber Chemistry and Technology. In 1986, he managed future Eastman technology fellow Frederick Ignatz-Hoover. After his retirement from Monsanto, he took a position with the Institute of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, managing the EPIC-M.A. Hanna Polymer Blending and Compounding Center. In the mid-1990s, A.N. Gent wrote that Coran had "played the leading role in the remarkable progress made in rubber vulcanization since about 1960." [2]

After departing the University of Akron in September 1991, Coran established a consultancy headquartered in Longboat, Florida. [8]

Honors and awards

Coran has received three awards from the American Chemical Society. In 1980, its Detroit division bestowed on him the Thomas Midgley award. In 1983, he received the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award. In 1995, the rubber division honored him with the Charles Goodyear Medal. He has also been acknowledged by the Plastics and Rubber Institute, which gave him its Colwyn medal [9] in 1984. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award" (PDF). American Chemical Society. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Coran to get Goodyear Medal". RubberNews.com. 24 October 1994. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rubber Division, ACS Oral History Series". summitmemory.org. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Meyers, Bruce (14 December 2020). "Aubie Coran, 1995 Charles Goodyear medalist, dies at 88". Rubber and Plastics News. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "Aubert Coran LinkedIn page" . Retrieved 6 Sep 2014.
  6. ↑ Coran, A. Y. (1994). Vulcanization. In Science and Technology of Rubber (2 ed.). Academic Press. pp. 339–385. ISBN   9780080516677 . Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  7. ↑ Coran, A. Y.; Patel, R. P.; Williams, D. (1982). "Rubber-thermoplastic compositions. Part V. Selecting polymers for thermoplastic vulcanizates". Rubber Chemistry and Technology. 5 (1): 116–136. doi:10.5254/1.3535861.
  8. ↑ "Aubert Coran". Linkedin. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "Colwyn Medal award winners". iom3. IOM3. Archived from the original on September 26, 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.

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