Paul Franklin Nealey is an American molecular engineer. Nealey studied chemical engineering at

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, then earned a doctorate in the subject from the

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. He undertook postdoctoral research at

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before working for Solvay et Compagnie in Brussels. During his teaching career at

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, Nealey received the

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Career Award in 1997, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2001, and was subsequently named Shoemaker Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was granted fellowship in the American Physical Society in 2008 " r fundamental and insightful research on the dimension dependent properties of polymer nanostructures, the directed self-assembly of block copolymers, and their application in the development of advanced lithographic materials and processes." Nealey later joined the

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as the Brady W. Dougan Professor in Molecular Engineering, and also accepted a joint appointment to the

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's Material Science Division. In 2018, Nealey was named a member of the

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" r the development of directed self-assembly of block copolymers as an industrially significant process for nanolithography."

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