Robert S. Freund

Background

Freund, Robert S. was born on January 26, 1939 in Newark. Son of Herman and Evelyn (Osterweil) Freund.

Education

Bachelor in Chemistry, Wesleyan University, 1960; Master of Arts in Physics, Harvard University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 1965.

Career

Member technical staff, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1966-1976; head department environmental chemistry research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1976-1979; head department chemical kinetics research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1979-1987; head department plasma processing research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1987-1990; head department power systems research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, since 1990. Commission on atomic and molecular science National Research Council, 1976-1982. Member science advising committee Governor State of New Jersey, 1979-1983.

Executive Committee Gaseous Electronics Conference, 1983-1985. Co-chairman local committee XVI International Conference on Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, 1987-1990. Organizer Workshop onPower Conversion Technology inthe Year 2000, Febs, 1994.

Achievements

• Robert S. Freund has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President, treasurer New Jersey chapter Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, board directors, since 1979. Fellow American Physical Society (Executive Committee division on atomic, molecular, optical physics, 1987-1990). Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Connections

Married Joan Kesselman, June 17, 1962. Children: Kevin, Wendy.

Father:

Herman Freund

Mother:

Evelyn (Osterweil) Freund

Spouse:

Joan Kesselman

child:

Kevin Freund

child:

Wendy Freund