Destination Nano - Scheduled Speaker

Dr. Arthur W. Snow, Naval Research Laboratory

Arthur W. Snow graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in chemistry in 1971, followed by brief military service; he then graduated from the City University of New York in 1977 with a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry.  After a year at American Cyanamid Company, he came to Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as a National Research Council Research Associate in 1978 and became an NRL staff member as a research chemist in 1979.  Dr. Snow is currently head of the Materials Synthesis and Processing Section in the Chemistry Division at NRL His research interests are polymer synthesis, electroactive polymers, low-dielectric polymers, chemical microsensors, metal nanoclusters and nonlinear optical materials.