John F. Rabolt

Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Delaware

A native of New York, John F. Rabolt received his B.S. in Physics at the State University of New York, Oneonta, New York, before coming to SIUC to earn his Ph.D. in Molecular Science. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, John spent the next two years as a National Research Council - National Academy of Sciences Research Associate at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. He joined IBM in 1978 as a research staff member in the Polymer Science and Technology group at IBM Research Division at Alamaden Research Center in San Jose, California, where he remained until 1996. John's achievements in spectroscopy have earned him such awards as the 1985 Coblentz Award in Molecular Spectroscopy, the Williams-Wright Award in Vibrational Spectroscopy in 1990, and the Ellis R. Lippincott Award in Molecular Spectroscopy in 1993. He will be the recipient of the A.E. Michelson Award in Vibrational Spectroscopy in 2000. In 1986 he was also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.


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