Background
Folk, Robert Thomas was born on October 17, 1927 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George William and Florence May (Klop) Folk.
Folk, Robert Thomas was born on October 17, 1927 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George William and Florence May (Klop) Folk.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1953; Bachelor of Science in Physics, Lehigh University, 1954; Master of Science in Physics, Lehigh University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Lehigh University, 1958.
National Science Foundation fellow, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1954-1957; assistant professor physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1961-1963; associate professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 1963-1965; professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, since 1965; instructor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1957-1959, 60-61; National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, Heidelberg (Federal Republic Germany) U., 1959-1960; physicist, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, summer 1961; research physicist, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, summer 1962, 63.
Member American Physical Society, Society Industrial Applied Mathematics.
Married Ingeborg Gerda Hampel, December 15, 1958. Children: Thomas Friedrick, Dieter Hans, Christine Ingeborg.