Sudhin Datta (born 1951) is an

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scientist noted for the development of Vistamaxx propylene-based elastomers.

Education

Datta earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1974. He completed his Ph.D. in

organometallic chemistry Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and so ...

from Harvard University in 1978. He held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Toronto and at the University of Chicago.

Career

In 1981, he joined

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Chemical Co. under

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where his research focused on the development of

polyolefin A polyolefin is a type of polymer with the general formula (CH2CHR)n where R is an alkyl group. They are usually derived from a small set of simple olefins (alkenes). Dominant in a commercial sense are polyethylene and polypropylene. More speciali ...

elastomers. With David J. Lohse, he published the textbook ''Polymeric Compatibilizers''.

Awards

* 2015 – Charles Goodyear Medal of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society

References

Living people Polymer scientists and engineers IIT Kanpur alumni Harvard University alumni 1951 births University of Toronto people University of Chicago people ExxonMobil people {{US-chemist-stub