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Marshall Fixman is an
American
physical chemist, University
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
at
Colorado State University, and
a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences.
Fixman earned his undergraduate
degree in
1950 from
Washington University, and his
Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in
1954. For his research --
theoretical and computational
studies of the the physical
chemistry of polymers -- Fixman
was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences
in
1973.
Fixman held an endowed
professorship at
Yale University but moved to
Colorado State in
1979 with his wife, Branka
Ladanyi, who also joined CSU's
chemistry faculty. He is an
associate editor of the
Journal of Chemical Physics,
and recieved the
American Chemical Society's
Awards in pure chemistry (1964)
and
polymer chemistry (1991).
