Robert Kenneth Jordan

Background

Jordan, Robert Kenneth was born on December 2, 1925 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Luther and Inez Irene (Smeal) Jordan.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Tufts U., 1954; postgraduate, Brandeis U., 1953-1954.

Career

Senior research chemist, Olin Matheson, Hi Energy Fuels, Niagara Falls, New York, 1954-1956; manager, assistant manager, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear and Research division, Quehanna, Pennsylvania, 1956-1960; new products manager, General Tire, Chem-Plastics division, Akron, Ohio., 1960-1965; project manager, United States Steel Corporation, New Products division, Pittsburgh, 1965-1973; consultant, inventor, Pittsburgh, since 1973; director, science-in-research, Gannon U., Erie, Pennsylvania, since 1980. Steel industry delegate North Atlantic Treaty Organization/CCMS, Europe, 1974-1979.

Achievements

• Robert Kenneth Jordan has been listed as a noteworthy Chemical engineer, inventor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Major United States Army Air Force, 1943-1947. Member Northwestern Inventors Council (chairman, co-founder Erie chapter since 1981, Inventor of Year 1985), Erie Engineering Society Council (member long-range planning committee since 1985, Man of Year 1986).

Connections

Married Zoe Correa Medina, March 28, 1948. Children: Robert Kenneth Junior, Zoe Ann, Carolyn Roxanna.

Father:

John Luther Jordan

Mother:

Inez Irene (Smeal) Jordan

Spouse:

Zoe Correa Medina

child:

Zoe Ann Jordan

child:

Carolyn Roxanna Jordan

child:

Robert Kenneth Junior Jordan