Jacob Klein selected for 2015 David Turnbull Lectureship Award
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recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers— brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends
the boundaries of conventional disciplines, as exemplified by the life of Arthur von Hippel (http://vonhippel. mrs.org).
understanding of dynamics of entangled polymers and of polymers at surfaces. More recent achievements by Klein include the discovery of confinementinduced phase transitions in liquids (Science 1995); the remarkable entropybased lubrication that can be achieved by polymer brushes (Nature 1991, Nature 1994); and in particular, the discovery of the hydration lubrication effect (Nature 2001, Science 2002, Nature 2003, Nature 2006, Science 2009a), which underlies most lubrication processes in biology. Although these achievements are of a very basic nature, the effects they relate to are important in a much wider context of materials science, from the rheology of polymer melts and properties of colloidal dispersions, to tertiary oil recovery, and to more efficient tissue engineering and biomedical devices, such as prosthetic implants (Science 2009b). Some 70 graduate students and postdocs received their training at Klein’s labs (at the University of Cambridge, the Weizmann Institute, and the University of Oxford), of whom 26 are currently in tenured faculty positions in leading universities in Israel, Europe, China, and North America, including several who have achieved their own high level of distinction. In Israel, he was one of the pioneers in soft matter research, establishing (in the early 1980s) the first seminar and lecture series in soft matter and interfacial phenomena, and was later a founder of the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute. His awards include the Tribology Gold Medal (2012), the Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter and Biophysics Prize (2011), the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2010), and the American Physical Society High Polymer Physics Prize (1995). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society, and the European Academy.
Jacob Klein selected for 2015 David Turnbull Lectureship Award
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he Materials Research Society’s (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship Award recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by the late David Turnbull of Harvard University. This year, Jacob Klein, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, has been selected to give the 2015 Turnbull Lectureship. Klein is cited “for discoveries which transformed our understanding of soft matter and interfaces, through sustained research, inspirational lecturing, and academic leadership.” He will be presented with the award at the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Klein has made landmark discoveries in polymer physics, in the understanding and control of surface forces, and in elucidating fri
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