Polymer Research

A center for fundamental research in the science of polymers, currently under construction at North Carolina’s Research Triangle Institute, is expected to be ready for initial occupancy in September upon the completion of the first unit of RTI’s new Camille Dreyfus Laboratory. The Laboratory, which is named in memory of the founder and first president of the Celanese Corporation of America, will be under the direction of Anton Peterlin, who has served for the past year in Germany as head of the Physics Institute at Munich’s Technische Hochschule. Known for his research in the rheological and optical properties of liquids and polymer solutions, Dr. Peterlin is a native of Yugoslavia and during the ten‐year period 1949–59 he headed the J. Stefan Institute of the Yugoslav Atomic Energy Commission. In 1959–60, before going to Munich, he served as a visiting professor at Harvard and at Wayne State University.