Arthur V. Tobolsky
Arthur Victor Tobolsky (1919–1972) was a professor in the chemistry department at Princeton University known for teaching and research in polymer science and rheology.
Personal
[edit]Tobolsky was born in New York City in 1919.[1] On September 7, 1972, Tobolsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53 on September 7, 1972, while attending a conference in Utica, N.Y.[2]
Education
[edit]Tobolsky graduated from Columbia in 1940, and received his PhD from Princeton in 1944. He studied under Henry Eyring and Hugh Stott Taylor.[3]
Career
[edit]Early in his career, he spent one year at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After that, he spent his entire career in the Chemistry Department at Princeton.[2] He served on the Editorial Boards of American Scientist, the Journal of Polymer Science, and the Journal of Applied Physics. In 1966, Tobolsky was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[4] His most cited work proposed a molecular theory of relaxing media.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Tobolsky, Arthur V. (November 1970). "SPE International Award Paper". Polymer Engineering and Science. 10 (6): 317–319. doi:10.1002/pen.760100602.
- ^ a b Prud'homme, Robert Emery. "In memoriam Arthur Tobolsky" (PDF). University of Montreal. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ "Academic Tree". Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive".
- ^ Green, M. S.; Tobolsky, A. V. (1946). "A new approach to the theory of relaxing polymeric media". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 14 (2): 80–92. Bibcode:1946JChPh..14...80G. doi:10.1063/1.1724109.
