Walter H. Stockmayer

Walter Hugo Stockmayer (April 7, 1914, in

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

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.

See also

• Multiangle light scattering
• Percolation theory

Further reading

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• In Memoriam Dr. Walter H. Stockmayer (1914-2004), Dartmouth College
• The Papers of Walter H. Stockmayer at Dartmouth College Library
• Center for Oral History. "Walter H. Stockmayer". Science History Institute.
• Sturchio, Jeffrey L.; Morris, Peter J. T. (22 January 1992). Walter H. Stockmayer, Transcript of Interviews Conducted by Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Peter J. T. Morris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 25 August 1986 and 22 January 1992 (PDF). Philadelphia, PA: Center for History of Chemistry.

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