Biographical Note
Melvin Cutler was a professor in the Oregon State University Physics
Department from 1963 until his retirement in 1988. Cutler earned his Ph.D.
in chemistry from Columbia University in 1951 and was employed at the
Hughes Aircraft Semiconducor Laboratory and the General Dynamics Company
from 1951 to 1958 researching liquid semiconductors. Cutler specialized in
the study of the electronic properties of molecular liquids and was
particularly interested in the development of liquid semiconductors.
Cutler died in Corvallis in 2005.
Content Description
The Melvin Cutler Papers document his research activities prior to
joining the faculty of Oregon State University. They include his Ph.D.
dissertation,
The Viscosity of Dilute Polyacrylic Acid
Solutions; a paper presented at the Cambridge A.P.S. meeting in
1953; and reprints of journal articles published during the 1950s.