Quick Facts
Biography
Robert F. Landel is a Jet Propulsion Laboratory physical chemist noted for his contribution to development of the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation, and for a particular form of hyperelastic energy function, the Valanis-Landel form.
Education
Robert F. Landel, MA 1951 & BA 1950 from the University of Buffalo.He completed postdocal research under Prof. John D. Ferry.
Career
Landel worked for Jet Propulsion Lab on solid rocket propellants as a physical chemist.He holds six patents.
Honors and awards
Robert F. Landel was elected vice president of the Society of Rheology in 1984.
In 2006, he won the Charles Goodyear Medal, bestowed by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division to individuals who"have been the principal inventor(s), innovator(s), or developer(s) of a significant change or contribution to the rubber industry".