Chemical Engineer Robert Good Honored By Adhesion Society

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Robert J. Good, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected by the Adhesion Society to receive its 3M Award for Excellence in Adhesion Science.

This award recognizes Good's extensive work in the search for the role of intermolecular forces on adhesion and interfacial tension.

The society will hold a one-day symposium in his honor next February.

Good joined the UB Department of Chemical Engineering in 1964 after serving as a senior scientist in the Space Science Lab of General Dynamics Corp. in San Diego.

He has served as a member of the UB Surface Science Center steering committee and has been a visiting scientist at such institutions as the National Institutes for Health, The City University and Imperial College, both in London, and the Kendall Lexington Laboratory of the Colgate Corp. in Lexington, Mass.

Good has authored or co-authored more than 130 publications on surface and colloid chemistry, and has presented numerous papers on the subject at major professional meetings in the United States and Europe.

He received a bachelor's degree from Amherst College, a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.

He lives on Grand Island.