He obtained a B. S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University
in 1959 and both M. S. and doctoral degrees in Chemical Engineering from Columbia
University in New York in 1964 and 1967, respectively. Since 1967, he worked
in research at The Dow Chemical Company and attained the position of Senior
Scientist in Dow Emulsion Polymers R&D. He recently retired from Dow and
is currently working as Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University. His
research interests are latex technology, emulsion polymerization, structured
latex polymerization, latex particle morphology-property relationships, living
free-radical emulsion polymerization, thermal properties of latexes, solid and
hollow plastic pigments, paper coating technology, dispersion rheology, particle
packing, colloid science, viscoelastic properties of coatings, general coatings
technologies, etc. He has published more than 50 reviewed technical papers and made numerous
presentations outside of Dow. He holds 28 U. S. patents.
He received the 1986 TAPPI (The Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry)
Coating & Graphic Arts Division Award and Charles W. Engelhard Medallion,
and he was named a TAPPI Fellow in 1991. He received The American Chemical Society
Midland Section Award for Outstanding Achievement and Promotion of Chemical
Sciences in 1989. In 1992, he received The Saginaw Valley Patent Law Association’s
Fire of Genius Award. Currently, he is a Technical Advisor to The Institute
of Chang-Gang Paper Technology, Kangwon National University, which is the only
non-profit paper research center in Korea. In 1997, he was appointed as an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging at
Western Michigan University. He served as Chair for the 2001 Gordon Research
Conference on Polymer Colloids. In 2002, he was appointed as a member of the
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) Research Advisory Committee.In 2002, he was appointed as a member of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) Research Advisory Committee. He is currently serving on the Korea TAPPI Journal Editorial Board.
He is listed in “Who’s Who in the West”, “American
Men & Woman of Science”, “Who’s Who in the World”,
“Who’s Who in Technology Today”, “Who’s Who in
Polymers and Plastics”, etc.