An Introduction to Plastics, 2nd, Completely Revised EditionISBN: 978-3-527-29602-6
Hardcover
409 pages
November 2003
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Elias was born in 1928. He studied at
the Technical University of Hanover, Germany, and received his
Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich in 1957. After
habilitation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich)
in 1961, he was appointed Senior Lecturer and later a professor of
organic-chemical technology. In 1971, he became founding president
of and professor of Polymer Science at the Michigan Molecular
Institute (MMI) in Midland, Michigan. During these years, he also
worked as consultant to the polymer industry in Germany,
Switzerland, and the United States and expert witness to companies
and the court. He was an in-house consultant at the Dow Chemical
Co., Midland (MI) (1983/84) and independent consultant between 1985
and 1993. He continues to teach at MMI.
Professor Elias has published more than 200 scientific and technical papers and two patents on the synthesis characterization, structure, properties, and application of synthetic and biological polymers. His ten authored or edited books have been published in English, French, German, and/or Russian, one of these, a 4-volume work, in six invitation in fifteen countries and was a member of editorial boards of five polymer journals.