Robert Simha
Robert Simha · Science & Medicine
Polymer physicist of free-volume theory; Bingham Medal (1973)
1912, Vienna, Austria — 2008, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
Austria · United States
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Robert Simha was an Austrian-born American polymer physicist, a pioneer of the free-volume theory of the glassy state and of the physical properties of macromolecules, honored with the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology in 1973. Educated in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States and taught at Case Western Reserve University. He came from a Jewish family and left Europe amid the rise of Nazism.
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Polymer physicist of free-volume theory; Bingham Medal (1973)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics
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