Wagner, Norman J., 1962-
Oral history interview with Norman Wagner, 2020 May 26.
In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, interviews Norman Wagner, Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. Wagner recounts his childhood in Pennsylvania and his undergraduate experience at Carnegie Mellon and his decision to study chemical engineering at Princeton. He discusses his graduate research at Los Alamos and Sandia and his postdoctoral research in Germany. The bulk of the interview covers Wagners wide-ranging research agenda at the University of Delaware. He discusses his strategic partnership with the NIST Center for Neutron Research, and the range of commercial endeavors that he has been involved in as a result of his research in soft matter physics. Wagner explains his work in biomedical engineering, and his collaboration with NASA on Mars-related research. At the end of the interview, Wagner provides a broad-based explanation of rheology and its development as a distinct scientific field.
American engineer. Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. Education: doctorate, 1988 Princeton University; bachelors, 1984 Carnegie Mellon University; president of the Society of Rheology (American Institute of Physics Member Society); co-founder and director of the Center for Neutron Science; served as Chair of the CBE Department from 2007-2012; elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2016 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2015; leads an active research group with focus on materials for manned space exploration, the rheology of complex fluids, neutron scattering, colloid and polymer science, applied statistical mechanics, nanotechnology and particle technology; joined the University of Delaware in 1991.
Carnegie-Mellon University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
NIST Center for Neutron Research
Princeton University
Sandia National Laboratories
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Delaware.
Chemical engineering.
Colloids.
Rheology.
Soft condensed matter.
Mars (Planet) -- Research.
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Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA