David R. Bauer will receive the prestigious Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2000.
WASHINGTON — David R. Bauer, Ford Motor Co., will receive the prestigious Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2000, a prize sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society.
Bauer is senior staff technical specialist in the Materials Science Department of Ford’s Research Laboratory. He is regarded as an expert on the mechanisms and kinetics of cure; network structure in high-solids coatings; flow control and coatings rheology; polymer photodegradation and stabilization; plastics characterization; and coating service-life prediction. He has authored more than 100 technical papers on coatings and plastics research, and delivered the 1996 Mattiello Lecture of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology. The Tess Award will be presented by PMSE Division Chairman Christopher Ober on Aug. 21, during the 220th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington.