Jerry P. Gollub: Biographical Sketch

Jerry P. Gollub is the JBB Professor in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics at Haverford College. In 2008-09 he served as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University of Cambridge and Overseas Fellow of Churchill College. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Fluid Dynamics Prize and the Award for Research in Undergraduate Institutions of the American Physical Society. A past member of the NAS governing Council, Gollub was Co-Chair of the National Research Council study “Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools. He has served on the Board of the National Science Resources Center. His research is concerned with nonlinear phenomena and fluid dynamics. He is coauthor of Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, an undergraduate textbook. Dr. Gollub teaches science courses designed for a broad audience, including “Fluids in Nature”, “Predictability in Science, and “Energy Options and Science Policy.” He has been Provost of Haverford College and Chair of its Educational Policy Committee, and is also affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. He sereved as Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society and as a member of the APS Executive Board. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Physical Review Letters and Physics of Fluids, and is an invited columnist for Physics Today. Dr. Gollub received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics at Harvard University in 1971.