Anton Peterlin

In memoriam

He was a Slovenian physicist. He was an internationally acclaimed scientist, the author of nearly 400 scholarly publications. For his research he received the Prešeren Award (Slovenian highest scientific award) in 1955. He was awarded the Bingham Medal for rheology in 1970 and the American Physical Society's High Polymer Physics Prize for 1972. A specialist in polymers, Peterlin was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Kolloid Gesellschaft, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also served as adjunct professor at Duke University. At his mandatory retirement in 1973, at age 65, Peterlin left for Washington, D.C. to become a senior scientist at the National Bureau of Standards, now National Institute of Science and Technology, a post he held until 1984. His son Boris Matija Peterlin is a distinguished biomedical researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. His grandson and namesake Anton Peterlin is an American soccer player.

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