Sheldon Weinig (born in New York City) is an American businessman who studied at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate and was a professor.
After completing high school, he served in the United States Army for two years and received his education on the GI Bill and was awarded a doctorate in metallurgy from Columbia University in 1955.
[1] Weinig as a professor[ambiguous] at Cooper Union and New York University for several years and then went on to found MRC.
In 2018 Weinig published a book entitled Rule Breaker - An Entrepreneur's Manifesto.
1980: Awarded the SEMMY Award, by the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute 1984: Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for "the development of high purity, highly characterized materials, and technological processing equipment for electronic and metallurgical applications"[2] 1988: Awarded the rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur by the Government of France 1990: Elected to the International Technology Institute’s Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology He also received three honorary doctorates from St. Thomas Aquinas College (law), Adelphi University (science) and the State university of New York at Stony Brook (science).