\"The Stockmayer Potential\" Walter H Stockmayer Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 For Sale

Up for sale "The Stockmayer Potential" Walter H. Stockmayer Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963. 

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Walter Hugo Stockmayer (April 7, 1914

in Rutherford, New Jersey –

May 9, 2004 in Norwich, Vermont) was an

internationally known chemist and university teacher. A former member of

the National

Academy of Sciences, he was recognized as one of the twentieth

century pioneers of polymer science. His specific

interest was in theory and experiment for the structure and dynamics of polymer

molecules, including various uses of the light

scattering method. Stockmayer

became interested in the mathematical aspects of physical chemistry as

an undergraduate at MIT.

A Rhodes Scholarship brought him to Jesus College, Oxford, where

he undertook  gas kinetics research with D. L. Chapman. He introduced

the Stockmayer potential. Stockmayer returned to MIT for Ph.D.

research and pursued his study of statistical mechanics,

which he later continued at Columbia University. He

returned again to MIT in 1943 to study the theory of network formation and the

gelation criterion. Stockmayer increasingly directed his attention to theories of

polymer solutions, light scattering and chain dynamics. After a Guggenheim Fellowship for

the academic year 1954/1955[3] in Strasbourg, France, he returned once more to MIT, then moved

to Dartmouth College in

1961. There, he worked primarily on copolymers in dilute solution, established the

journal Macromolecules, and

collaborated with many Japanese scientists. Stockmayer is mentioned as a friend

of the author in the novel Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, and is described as a distinguished pianist and

a good skier.[4] A fellowship in honor of Professor Stockmayer

was established at Dartmouth College in 1994.