Arthur Victor Tobolsky (1919–1972) was a professor in the chemistry department at Princeton University known for teaching and research in polymer science and rheology.
Tobolsky was born in New York City in 1919.[1] On September 7, 1972, Tobolsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53 on September 7, 1972, while attending a conference in Utica, N.Y.[2]
Tobolsky graduated from Columbia in 1940, and received his PhD from Princeton in 1944. He studied under Henry Eyring and Hugh Stott Taylor.[3]
Early in his career, he spent one year at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After that, he spent his entire career in the Chemistry Department at Princeton.[2] He served on the Editorial Boards of American Scientist, the Journal of Polymer Science, and the Journal of Applied Physics. In 1966, Tobolsky was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[4] His most cited work proposed a molecular theory of relaxing media.[5]