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Appendix C
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
EDWARD T. SAMULSKI received his B.S. degree from Clemson University and a Ph.D in
chemistry from Princeton University. After postdoctoral research in Groningen and Texas,
he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut. He is currently professor of
chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are
liquid crystals; biological macromolecules and synthetic polymers; and application of magnetic
resonance techniques to study molecular dynamics of polymer solutions, melts and liquid
crystal phases.
MORTON M. DENN received his B.S.E. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in
chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota. He was employed at the University of
Delaware before joining the University of California at Berkeley, where he is professor of
chemical engineering and Program Leader for Polymers and Composites in the Center for
Advanced Materials at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. His research interests are polymer processing; rheology; non-
Newtonian fluid mechanics; polymer/nonpolymer surface interactions; and process
simulation, stability, and control.
DONALD B. DUPRE received his B.A. degree from Rice University and M.A. and Ph.D. in
chemistry at Princeton University. He was employed at North American Rockwell
Corporation and is currently professor of chemistry at the University of Louisville. His
research interests are laser light scattering spectroscopy and chemical physics of polymers and
liquid crystals.
NATHAN D. FIELD received his B.S. degree from the City College of New York and Ph.D.
in polymer chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He is presently a
consultant in Elkins Park, PA. Most recently he was vice-president of R&D at Dartco
Manufacturing, Inc. where Xydar~ LCP polyesters were developed. Prior to that, his
experience included City University of New York, Playtex International, GAF Corporation,
Atlantic Refining, and DuPont. His interests include liquid crystalline polymers, engineering
resins, polymer blends, polymer structure-processing-property relationships, polymer
synthesis, water soluble-swellable polymers, and surface-active chemistry.
ANSELM C. GRIFFIN III received his B.S. from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D.
in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently professor of chemistry
and polymer science at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests are
structure-property relationships in liquid crystals; solid state-chemistry; and liquid crystalline
polymers.
MICHAEL JAFFE received his B.A. degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in chemistry
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a research fellow at Hoechst-Celanese
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transition behavior of polymers; and structure-property relationships of polymers and related
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STEPHANIE L. KWOLEK received her B.S. degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
and an honorary D.Sc. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Until retiring, she was research
associate in the Textile Fibers Department, Pioneering Research Laboratory, E. I. DuPont de
Nemours and Co., Inc. Her research interests are condensation polymers; high-temperature
polymers; low-temperature interracial and solution polymerizations; high-tenacity and high-
modulus fibers and films; and liquid crystalline polymers and solutions.
MALCOLM B. POLK received his B.S. degree at the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in
chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He was employed by DuPont, Prairie View
College, U.S. Department of the Interior, and Atlanta University. He is currently an
associate professor at the School of Textile Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
His research interests are synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline block
copolyesters and copolyamides.
DUSAN C. PREVORSEK received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University
of Ljubljana. He was employed by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the Textile Research
Institute. He is currently manager of polymer science at Allied-Signal Corporation. His
research interests are structure of complex organic molecules; theoretical and experimental
viscoelasticity, diffusion, and fracture; textile and tire mechanics; synthesis and properties
of ordered copolymers; polymer compatibility; interpenetrating networks; composites; and
adhesion.
MONTGOMERY T. SHAW received B.ChE. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University and
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Princeton University. He was employed at Union
Carbide Corporation. He is currently a professor at the University of Connecticut. His
interests are research directed at relating the physical and chemical behavior of high polymers
to the structure of the polymer and developing the theory and experiments to substantiate
these relationships.
ULRICH SUTER received his diploma in chemical engineering and a Sc.D. at the
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich. He was employed at that institution and at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently a professor at the Eidgenossische
Technische Hochschule. His research interests are physical polymer chemistry, statistical
mechanics of polymers, amorphous polymers, and spectroscopy, including scattering and
optical activity.
DAVID J. WILLIAMS received his B.S. degree from Le Moyne College and a Ph.D. in
physical chemistry from the University of Rochester. He is currently manager of physical
chemistry at Xerox Corporation. His research interests are mechanistics of photogeneration
and transport of electronic charge in organic and polymeric materials; pulsed nuclear
magnetic resonance; electron spin resonance; electrical measurements; and optical
spectroscopy.
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