Edwin Lorimer Thomas is the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering at

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and served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering from 2011 to 2017. Thomas earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the

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in 1963 and a Ph.D. in

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and engineering from

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in 1974. Thomas was awarded the status of Fellow in the

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, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 1985, for ''being a leading authority on the application of electron microscopy and scattering techniques to problems in polymer structure-property relations and for contributions on mosaic block structure of semicrystalline polymers as well as on the structure of the noncrystalline solid state of glassy polymers.''

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