Mark O. Robbins

Mark O. Robbins
Mark O. Robbins
	Waterville, Maine (2010)
Born	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Died	August 13, 2020 (aged 64); Baltimore, MD
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley;
Known for	Elucidation of the fundamental origins of friction, fracture, and adhesion
Awards	1999 APS Fellow; 2018 AAAS Fellow;
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics, Computational physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University,; Exxon Corp.; Cambridge University;
Doctoral advisor	Leopoldo M. Falicov
Website	markrobbins.johnshopkins.edu

Mark Owen Robbins was an American condensed matter physicist who specialized in computational studies of friction, fracture and adhesion, with a particular focus on nanotribology, contact mechanics, and polymers.^[2] He was a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University at the time of his death.^[3]^[4]

^ "Physics Tree-Mark O. Robbins Family Tree". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
^ Müser, Martin H. (September 1, 2021). "Editorial: In Memory of Mark Robbins". Tribology Letters. 69 (3): 1–3. doi:10.1007/s11249-021-01458-2. ISSN 1573-2711. S2CID 235191096.
^ Cite error: The named reference Obit1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Obit2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).