Robert B. Meyer
Robert Bruce Meyer (born October 13, 1943 in St. Louis ) is an American physicist and professor at Brandeis University .
Meyer studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a doctorate on liquid crystals with David Turnbull in 1970. He stayed as a post-doctoral student at Harvard, became an assistant professor in 1971 and an associate professor in 1974. In 1978 he became a professor at Brandeis University. In 1971 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).
In 1977 he was visiting professor at Nordita at Chalmers University in Gothenburg and Joliot Curie professor at École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris.
Meyer deals with liquid crystals and new types of soft solid materials, in particular with their chirality, electrical polarizability, their textures and defect structures, phase transitions and behavior in external fields and liquid crystal gel and its elastic properties.
In 2006 he and Noel A. Clark received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for fundamental theoretical and experimental studies on liquid crystals, in particular their ferroelectric and chiral properties (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2004.
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- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Buckley Prize 2006
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Robert B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Robert Bruce (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and professor at Brandeis University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis |