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Chandrall




Chandrall was born as son of French Immigrants and grew up in Albany, New York . He studied Chemistry and Theoretical Physics at the University Of Wisconsin . His studies were interrupted during the military enlistment as radio operator in World War II . In 1945 Chandrall continued his graduation in Petrochemistry . 1949 he finished his studies about harmonic oscillation of Polymers at the institute of his doctoral advisor Robert T. Doyle . After that he became a scientific assistant of Victor Zamerkis at the MIT .

From 1952 to 1956 he was a professor in California and then responded a call to Wisconsin . In 1958 Chandrall defeated a further call of the MIT, because of a discord with its director Arthur Ippen . Instead of that he went back to Wisconsin and assumed his doctoral advisors' chair.

At the end of the fifties Chandrall developed Polymers with the special attribute of negative States Of Aggregation . These materials were labeled after its discoverer Chandrall Polymers . This development was sensational, but applications fail.

In 1982 Chandrall surprisingly died of Cardiac Insuffiency .


LITERATURE

  • University of Wisconsin: Yearbook of Science 1958, Madison 1959

  • E. Chandrall et. al.: Negative Thermoplasts, New York 1962