Paul A. Fleury
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Paul Aimé Fleury (born 1939) is an American physicist and academic administrator. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University and also the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics.
Fleury was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at John Carroll University (B.S, 1960) and MIT (Ph.D., 1965). Fleury was at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1970 until 1995 including work at Sandia National Laboratories. Fleury was the Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico from 1996-2000. He then succeeded D. Allan Bromley as Dean of Engineering at Yale. Starting in 2007, he will be director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.
His research has been in experimental condensed matter physics and material science including dynamic aspects of phase transformations and optical spectroscopy.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Michaelson Morley prize (1985) and the Frank Isakson prize for optical effects in solids (1992) from the American Physical Society.
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- "Paul Aimé Fleury." Marquis Who's Who, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
