- Paul A. Fleury
Paul Aimé Fleury (born 1939) is an American
physicist and academic administrator. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering atYale University and is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics. Fleury was born inBaltimore ,Maryland and educated atJohn Carroll University (B.S, 1960) andMIT (Ph.D., 1965). Fleury was atAT&T Bell Laboratories from 1970 until 1995 including work atSandia National Laboratories . Fleury was the Dean of the School of Engineering at theUniversity of New Mexico from 1996-2000. He then succeededD. Allan Bromley as Dean of Engineering at Yale. In 2007, he became the director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.His research has been in experimental
condensed matter physics andmaterial science including dynamic aspects of phase transformations andoptical spectroscopy .He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
National Academy of Engineering , and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science . He received the Michaelson Morley prize (1985) and theFrank Isakson prize for optical effects in solids (1992) from theAmerican Physical Society .References
* "Paul Aimé Fleury." Marquis Who's Who, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
External links
* [http://www.eng.yale.edu/faculty/vita/fleury.htm Biography at Yale]
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