Edward Kramer

Bio

Edward Kramer received a B.Ch.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1966. Professor Kramer was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford with Sir Peter Hirsch, FRS, before joining the faculty of Cornell University in 1967, where he was appointed the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1988. Ten years later, he joined the faculty of University of California, Santa Barbara, holding a joint appointment in Materials and Chemical Engineering. Professor Kramer's current research activities focus on polymer deformation and fracture, as well as the structure and properties of polymer surfaces and interfaces using a variety of depth profiling, diffraction and microscopic imaging methods.