Distinguished Service Award

2008 DIVISION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

The recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Service Award, given by the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is Dr. David J. Lohse. Dr. David J. Lohse has been a member of the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society for nearly 30 years, and he has served it in several capacities over the past 20 years. He organized several symposia for PMSE in various areas of polymer chemistry and physics, covering topics such as polymer interfaces, scattering from polymers, compatibilization, and the miscibility of polymers. Dave served as PMSE Program Chair from 1991-94, Secretary in 1995, and then progressed through the offices to become Chair in 1998. He served as the initial chair of the PMSE Fellows Committee in 1999, continuing in that capacity until 2003. Since 2003 he has been a Councilor for PMSE, and has been a member of the Divisional Activities Committee of ACS.

Dave received B.S. degrees in both Physics and Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1974, and a Ph. D. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois in 1978. He then spent two years at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in Gaithersburg, MD under an NSF-NRC Fellowship, working on the theory of polymer solutions with Isaac Sanchez. Since then he has worked for Exxon Mobil Corporation, first in the Long Range Polymer Research Group of Exxon Chemical Co. Since 1987 he has worked in what are now the Corporate Strategic Research Labs of ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. in Annandale, NJ., now holding the position of Distinguished Research Associate. His current research focuses on polymer crystallization, nanocomposites, the thermodynamics of mixing polymer blends, neutron scattering from polymers, the control of rheology by molecular architecture, the use of block and graft copolymers to enhance blend compatibility, and the application of such knowledge to develop improved polymer products. His research has resulted in over 100 publications (including a book on "Polymeric Compatibilizers" written in 1996 with Sudhin Datta of ExxonMobil Chemical Co.) and 21 US patents. He has been presented with four internal company Global Technology Awards, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000, and became a PMSE Fellow in 2005.

Past recipients of the Distinguished Service Award include:

1993	Roy W. Tess
1994	E. E. McSweeney
1995	Louis J. Nowacki
1996	Kenneth N. Edwards
1999	Clara D. Craver
2000	Sandy Labana
2001	John Lupinski
2002	Charles E. Carraher
2003	Theodore Provder
2004	Ray Dickie
2005	Larry F. Thompson
2006	S. Richard Turner
2007	George R. Pilcher
2008	David J. Lohse

Past Distinguished Service Award Winners

2001 Service Award Winner

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