Norman Bekkedahl

Norman Bekkedahl (1903–1986) was Deputy Chief of the Polymers Division at the Institute for Materials Research of the National Bureau of Standards.

[1] Bekkedahl received the 1967 Charles Goodyear Medal for his work with the application of thermodynamics to natural rubber, in particular the application of dilatometry[2] to studying glass transition[3] and crystallization[4] of rubber.

[5][6] In 1995, he was inducted into the International Rubber Science Hall of Fame.

He studied chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.

He worked at the American Sugar Beet Company, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Bureau of Standards (Polymers Division).