Tobolsky, Arthur

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Princeton University. While at Princeton, his research was directed by Arthur V. Tobolsky in the area of polymer physical chemistry. He is currently professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin where, since 1967, he has been active in polymer research. He has published more than 80 papers on topics covering polyurethane block polymers, inomers, polymer yield mechanisms, composites, and fiber physics. His current research includes studies of protein and thrombus deposition on polymers used in biomedical applications. Professor Cooper is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served on the Board of Trustees of Argonne Universities Association. 

Dr. Mark was appointed head of the Shellac Bureau in 1939 and was promoted to a full professor in 1942. During the World War II years, Mark directed many research projects for the United States government. Among the many notable polymer scientists on his research teams were Drs. Turner Alfrey, Paul Doty, Isidor Fankuchen, W. Hohenstein, Arthur Tobolsky and B.H. Zimm. 

C. G. Overberger and J. A. Moore, The Chemistry of Sulfides, edited by Arthur V. Tobolsky, Interscience Publishing, Div. of John Wiley Sons, New York, NY (1968). 

An extensive discussion of the stress relaxation function in vulcanized mbber completes this chapter. The work was performed by another emerging leader in polymer science Arthur V. Tobolsky (1919-1972). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1944 and worked with Henry Eyring and Hugh S. Taylor. Taylor was proud to present the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology to Tobolsky in 1956. Tobolsky also collaborated with Herman Mark on the Second Edition of his monograph [3], published in 1950. He was so successful at Princeton that he was appointed there immediately. He found himself at Brooklyn Poly as Professor of Chemistry in 1950, but returned to Princeton where he spent the rest of his life. One of the first students to graduate under the direction of Arthur Tobolsky was Richard S. Stein (1925-) in 1948. 

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