Norman J. Wagner

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Norman J. Wagner
Alma mater Princeton University (Ph.D., 1988)
Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelors, 1984)
Scientific career
Fields Chemical Engineering
Rheology
Colloids
Non-Newtonian fluids
Complex fluids
Manned Space Exploration
Particle technology
Nanotechnology
Neutron scattering
Brownian motion
Institutions University of Delaware
Doctoral advisor William B. Russel

Norman J. Wagner is an American engineer, currently the UNIDEL Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware. [1] [2] [3] He holds a joint professorship to the Department of Physics and Astronomy as well as a professorship in the Department of Biomechanics and Movement Science. [4]

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Education

He gained a bachelor's degree at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. He was awarded a doctorate in 1988 at Princeton University and a Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, in 1990. [4]

Career

He served as chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Delaware from 2007 to 2012. He has held visiting professorship at ETH Zurich (1997) and the University of Rome (2004). [4]

Awards

He was awarded the Bingham Medal in 2014 by the Society of Rheology. [5] He received the Sustained Research Prize in 2018 from the Neutron Scattering Society of America. [6]

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References

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  2. "Norman Wagner". udel.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  3. "Lab". udel.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Norman J. Wagner". University of Delaware. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  5. "Bingham Medalist". Society of Rheology. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  6. "NSSA Sustained Research Prize". Neutron Scattering Society of America. Retrieved 29 July 2019.