Alan Neville Gent (11 November 1927 – 20 September 2012) was a professor at the University of Akron.
He was recognized during his lifetime as a world-leading authority on the topics of adhesion physics, crystalline and glassy polymers, and the fracturing of rubber.
[10] At age 17, Gent worked as a research assistant at the John Bull Rubber Co.
Gent joined the faculty of the University of Akron in 1961 and spent almost half a century at the school.
Gent also received the Charles Goodyear Medal from the ACS Rubber Division in 1990.