Background

Reneker, Darrell Hyson was born on December 5, 1929 in Birmingham, Iowa, United States. Son of Glenn B. and Edith Margaret Reneker.

Education

BScEE, Iowa State University, 1951; Master of Science in Physics, University of Chicago, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University of Chicago, 1959.

Career

Member technical staff, Bell Telephone laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1951-1953; physicist, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 1959-1969; deputy director, Center for Material Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland., 1969-1989; director Maurice Morton Institute Polymer Science, U. Akron, Ohio., 1987-1994; professor polymer science, U. Akron, Ohio., since 1989. Director Edison Polymer Innovation Corporation, Broadview Heights, Ohio, 1989-1995, Plastics Institute American, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1983-1989.

Achievements

• Darrell Hyson Reneker has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society (chairman division of high polymer physics 1984-1985). Member American Chemical Society, Society of Plastics Engineers, Materials Research Society.

Connections

Married Joan Rose Reneker, July 10, 1953. Children: Douglas Alan, Elizabeth Ann Riley.

Father:

Glenn B.

Mother:

Edith Margaret Reneker

Spouse:

Joan Rose Reneker

child:

Elizabeth Ann Riley Reneker

child:

Douglas Alan Reneker