General Information

Room: RH 634
Phone: 3830
E-mail: areiser@poly.edu

Profile

Born 1920 in Prague, Czech Republic, Educated at the School of Chemistry of Prague Technical University. From 1948 till 1960 taught physical chemistry at that university.

1960 to 1982 worked at the Kodak Research Laboratory in England on problems of photosensitive polymers and became actively involved in the beginnings of the semiconductor revolution. Elucidated the mechanism of the fading the stabilization of azo-dyes in terms of the lifetimes of their excited electronic states.

At Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn (from 1982) built the Institute of Imaging Sciences, and with a group of doctoral students discovered the molecular mechanism of positive working photo-resists (the principal imaging materials of the computer chip). This work became the basis of the new “computer-to-plate” printing technology which has been adopted by over 80% of all printing works worldwide.

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1968)
• National degree ( UK) of D.Sc., awarded by Prince Charles (1982)
• Votoĉek Medal of the Czech Technical University, (1991)
• Heyrovský Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, (2000)