Jacob Klein (born 1949), former holder of the Herman Mark Chair of Polymer Physics in the Materials and Interfaces Department at the

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and Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the

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, is an internationally renowned soft condensed matter, polymer and surface scientist. Klein was an undergraduate and graduate at

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and held a research fellowship and later a

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ship at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge between 1976 and 1984. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Polymer Research, Weizmann Institute between 1977 and 1980, after which he worked jointly as university demonstrator with the Physics Department, Cambridge, and as a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute. Klein was appointed an associate professor at the Weizmann Institute in 1984 and became a full

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in 1987, heading the Institute's Polymer Research Department throughout 1989 to 1991. In October 2000 Klein was appointed as head of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford. He is a fellow of Exeter College, and until 2008 held the Dr Lee's Chair of Chemistry, a position previously held by Nobel prize winners

Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also prov ...

and Sir

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. He was succeeded in that position by Professor

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. Professor Klein currently heads a research group at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He was elected a

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in 2003. He was awarded the Tribology Gold Medal from the

Institution of Mechanical Engineers The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent professional association and learned society headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession. With over 120,000 member ...

(IMechE) in 2012.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Klein, Jacob 1949 births Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Weizmann Institute of Science faculty Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry Fellows of the American Physical Society Tribologists