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{{Short description|American physicist and professor}}
'''Robert Bruce Meyer''' (October 13, 1943 [[St. Louis]]- November 17, 2023)<ref>biographical information from ''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004</ref>
Meyer graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1965 with a bachelor's degree and in 1970 with a doctoral degree with advisor [[David Turnbull (materials scientist) | David Turnbull]]<ref name=CV/> and dissertation on effects of electromagnetic fields on the structure of [[liquid crystal]]s.<ref name=MRS>{{Cite web |url= https://www.mrs.org/docs/default-source/Careers/awards/turnbull/david-turnbull-autobiography.pdf?sfvrsn=28bad611_2|title= David Turnbull Autobiography|pages=45–46|work= Official website|publisher= Materials Research Society|date=}}</ref> At Harvard, Meyer was a postdoctoral student and became in 1971 an assistant professor and in 1974 an associate professor. At Brandeis University he was appointed an associate professor in 1978 and a full professor in 1985.<ref name=CV/>
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