Pol Duwez | |
Birth Date: | 11 December 1907 |
Citizenship: | United States |
Field: | Materials Science |
Work Institution: | California Institute of Technology |
Alma Mater: | University of Brussels |
Doctoral Advisor: | Émile Henriot |
Doctoral Students: | William Andrew Goddard III |
Prizes: | James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1980) |
Pol Duwez (11 December 1907 - 31 December 1984) was a Belgian-born materials scientist. While working at Caltech in 1960, he first introduced metallic glasses made through rapid liquid cooling using a technique known as splat quenching.[1]