Edwin_Lorimer_Thomas

Edwin Lorimer Thomas

Edwin Lorimer Thomas

American Professor of Engineering

Edwin Lorimer Thomas is the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering at Rice University and served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering from 2011-2017.[1] Thomas earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1963 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 1974. Thomas was awarded the status of Fellow[2] in the American Physical Society,[3] after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 1985,[4] for being a leading authority on the application of electron microscopy and scattering techniques to problems in polymer structure-property relations and for contributions on mosaic block structure of semicrystalline polymers as well as on the structure of the noncrystalline solid state of glassy polymers.

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  1. [1]
    "The People of Rice". www.profiles.rice.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  2. [2]
    "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  3. [3]
    "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  4. [4]
    "APS Fellows 1985". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.


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