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Donald R. Uhlmann

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Donald Robert Uhlmann (b. 1936) is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Optical Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Uhlmann holds a BS degree in physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than two decades, eventually holding its Cabot Professorship of Materials, before moving to the University of Arizona

He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and of the U.K. Society of Glass Technology. He has been elected a member of the Academy of Ceramics. He was also elected as a member into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for achievements in glass technology and in optical and structural applications of glass. He is a Trustee of the Ernst Abbe Foundation and on the Advisory Board of the Institute fur Neue Materialien, both located in Germany, and is a director of Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.

He has published over 400 technical papers, and is the author or editor of over 10 books.[1]

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