| Birth Name: | Ulrich Paul Strauss |
| Birth Date: | 10 January 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Frankfurt, Germany |
| Death Place: | Highland Park, New Jersey |
| Alma Mater: | Columbia University Cornell University |
| Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship (1971) |
| Field: | Chemistry |
| Work Institution: | Rutgers University |
Ulrich Paul Strauss (January 10, 1920 – August 7, 2015) was an American chemist. He was professor emeritus at Rutgers University.[1] Strauss received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971.[2]
Strauss was born in Frankfurt. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.[3] He finished his postdoc at Yale University before embarking a teaching a career at Rutgers University, where he taught from 1948 to 1990. Strauss' specialty was polyelectrolytes and he created prefabricated soap micelles known as "polysoaps."[4] [5]
Strauss died on August 7, 2015, at age 95 at his home in Highland Park, New Jersey.[6]