Morawetz, Herbert

Alfrey T, Jr. Fuoss, Raymond M. Morawetz, Herbert Pinner, Harry (1952) J Am Chem Soc 74 438... 

Morawetz, Herbert (1985). Polymers The Origins and Growth of a Science. New York Wiley. 

Herbert Morawetz, whom Mark hired at Brooklyn Poly in 1951, says that he believes that Mark is incapable of negative emotion, "or at least they are buried beyond retrieval". As an example, it is well known that Hermann Staudinger disliked Mark as a result of the events about the establishment of the macro-molecular concept. His dislike bordered on open contempt, but Mark steadfastly refused to openly criticize Staudinger. In... 

The book opens with a historical reflection on the emergence of a scientific discipline known as polymer science. The influence of Herbert Morawetz on my own thinking in this area is significant. In addition, a historical project on "Paradigms in Polymer Science" is currently in progress at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. I am grateful for the award of the Charles C. Price Fellowship in Polymer History that facilitated that work and resulted in the completion of the present volume. 

First, however, a cautionary note the ideas presented here are not original nor based on the author s work. What you read in the following is entirely derivative and rests exclusively on the publications of others. The author attempts to cite the work of the major contributors and the reviews from which he also learned, but admits that he has left out many great contributions and conceptual creations. The reviewers that most influenced him are Paul J. Flory [1], Herbert Morawetz [2, 3], and Dietrich Braun [4]. 

From the intense interest in polymers at Brookl5m Polytechnic and needless to say the presence of Herbert Morawetz, Eli Pearce, and Fred Eirich in addition to Herman Mark, one could not avoid an attraction to the field, whose signature characteristic, one early learns, is cooperativity. The results from Pisa [3, 5], in fact, were a perfect example of the cooperativity arising fi om the helical conformation. However, the helical state of vinyl-derived polymers does not exist in a deep energy well and therefore the helix is easily interrupted by defects in this conformational state. The ease of these interruptions and the inherent flexibility of the bonds along the backbone of the polymer lead to a limited persistence length. The polymer can be described as a random coU on a small length scale. 

Herbert Morawetz Department of Chemistry Polytechnic Institute of New York 333 Jay Street Brooklyn, New York 11201... 

Stuart A. Rice and Mitsuru Nagasawa. Polyelectrolyte Solutions A Theoretical Introduction, with a contribution by Herbert Morawetz. 1961... 

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