Robert Hans Schuster (born 8 September 1942) is the former director of the German Institute for Rubber Technology (DIK) and a popular lecturer on rubber technology.
Education
Schuster earned a Dipl.-Chem. in 1967 from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania. He earned a Doctor of Science in February 1984 at the Staudinger Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the topic of "thermodynamic investigations on polystyrene-solvent systems" under advisor H.J. Cantow.
Career
From 1984 to 1992, Schuster led the Department of Chemistry and Physics of Elastomers at DIK. In 1992, he was appointed director of the DIK. He was also a lecturer at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in the University of Hanover since 1987, and he held the rank of professor there since April 1996. His most cited work treats the subject of fractal filler networks in rubber.
Awards
- 2012 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS
References
- Kopfe des Kautschuk Heads of Hevea. Hamburg: KP Verlag. 2006. ISBN 9783000164125. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- "Melvin Mooney Award bestowed" (PDF). Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe. No. 6. Huthig Medien. 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ "Robert H. Schuster biography". rubber.confex.com. ACS Rubber Division. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- Klüppel, M.; Schuster, R. H.; Heinrich, G. (1997). "Structure and properties of reinforcing fractal filler networks in elastomers". Rubber Chemistry and Technology. 70 (2): 243–255. doi:10.5254/1.3538429.
- "ACS Rubber Division announces 2012 award winners". k--online.com. Gupta Verlag. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- "Rubber Division meets in Texas". Rubber and Plastics News. Crain. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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