One of the founding members of the Polymer Science & Engineering program at Lehigh University, Lesley Sperling, died at his home on February 1, 2016. Dr. Sperling was a professor emeritus at Lehigh University after teaching at Lehigh for over 45 years. Dr. Sperling was internationally known for his work with polymer materials, and mentored many students and post-docs. He was honored as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010. His efforts at ACS have included the POLY/PMSE Polymer Education Committee and the ACS Nomenclature Committee, as well as serving PMSE as Member at Large. With the Poly Ed. Committee, his main activity has been interacting with chemistry book authors, trying to get them to include more polymer topics. Les was selected as a PMSE Fellow in 2002 and as an ACS Fellow in 2010. In 2012, Les won the PMSE Distinguished Service Award. HTML Comment Box is loading comments...
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