Walter H. Stockmayer

Walter Hugo Stockmayer ( born April 7, 1914 in Rutherford, New Jersey; † 9 May 2004 Norwich, Vermont ) was an American chemist. He was a pioneer of polymer research.

His area of ​​research was in particular the structure and dynamics of polymers, including several applications of light scattering methods.

Stockmayer interested in already as an undergraduate at MIT for the mathematical aspects of physical chemistry. With a Rhodes Scholarship, he worked at Jesus College, Oxford, where he conducted research on the kinetic theory of gases under the direction of David Leonard Chapman ( 1869-1958 ). Stockmayer returned for his Ph.D. research on the MIT. He worked in the field of statistical mechanics. This work he continued also at Columbia University. In 1943 he returned again to MIT.

After a Guggenheim Fellowship in Strasbourg and another time at MIT, he worked from 1961 at Dartmouth College. In 1996 he received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry.

He founded the journal Macromolecules.

  • Physical chemist
  • University teachers (MIT)
  • Chemists ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2004
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