Obituary: Robert L Scott, Emeritus Professor, UCLA

摘要

A distinguished physical chemist, Bob joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1948. A native Californian, Bob made the trek to the east coast to attend Harvard, where he majored in Chemistry. He then began graduate study at Princeton in 1942, working on polymer physical chemistry with Michel Magat and, after receiving his doctorate in 1945, continued to work there and at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. He returned to California in 1946 to carry out postdoctoral research with Joel Hildebrand as a Frank B. Jewett fellow at UC Berkeley. Bob and his wife Libby in 2003, on the occasion of her birthday.