Morton, Maurice

Morton, Maurice Kammereck, Rudolf F. Fetters, L. J. Macromolecules, 1971, 4, 11. 

Morton, Maurice, "Anionic Polymerization Principles and Practice" Academic Press New York, 1983. 

J.T. Bayers, Rubber Technology, Chapter 3, Part I, Third Edition, Edited by Maurice Morton, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1985. 

Professor Mark s story is told in three chapters by the Editor and four reminiscences by Rudolf Brill (whose association with Mark dates back to 1922), Hans Mark (his son), Linus Pauling, and Maurice Morton. The history of polymer science is given in separate chapters by the Editor, Robert Simha (who has worked with Professor Mark in two countries), and Carl Speed Marvel. One chapter by Charles Carraher gives an up to the minute report on the status of polymer education. The remainder of the book is a collection of reviews and previews of specific, timely topics in polymer science. Despite the diversity of topics, each area covered has contributions from Herman Mark. 

Some of the older polymer institutions grew, such as the rubber and polymer based institute at the University of Akron, which was formed in the 1940 s, and where Maurice Morton took the Directorship in 1954. Others remained essentially the same and still others slipped. "Brooklyn Poly", the center of academic polymer chemistry in the USA in the 1940 s and 1950 s remained as such but became less dominant because a number of their excellent staff left to found other institutes. For instance, Charles Over-berger, who rose to Dean of Science and Director of the Polymer Research Institute, left in 1967 to take the chairmanship of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan where he helped found their macromolecular based institute. 

B. JEFFREY SHERMAN Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909. VASSIEIOS GAEIATSATOS Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909. Present Address Huntsman Polymers Corporation, Odessa, Texas 79766. 

Frank. W. Harris, Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909... 

Howard L. Stephens, Associate professor of Polymer Science U ni versify of Akron, Ohio, US, The Compounding and Vulcanization of Rubber, in Rubber Technology 1973, edited by Maurice Morton, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, NY, USA. 

We are grateful to the many coworkers and colleagues who have assisted us in compiling this book. First, we wish to thank Professor Wayne Mattice (the Alex Schulman Professor at the Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science at the University of Akron) for his first chapter, which melds the history and theory underlying dendritic polymer chemistry it is also interesting to note that it was in 1978 that he did a sabbatical at Stanford with Professor Flory, who proposed structure-imperfect branched polymers in the 1940s. 

Howard L. Stephens in Maurice Morton ed., Rubber Technology, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, Chapter 2,1987. 

The Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science The University of Akron Akron, Ohio... 

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