Jeffrey Urbach

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Jeffrey Urbach
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Stanford University
Amherst College
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions Georgetown University

Jeffrey Urbach is an American physicist, currently focusing in biophysics of cellular dynamics and mechanics and physics of Soft Matter at Georgetown University and is an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. [1]

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References

  1. "Fellows". aps.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.