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Jeffrey Kovac

Jeffrey Kovac (May 29, 1948 - ) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His interdisciplinary research has included work in physical chemistry including thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, polymer dynamics, and the structure and formation of coal, but also in history and philosophy of science, chemical education, and the history and philosophy of pacifism and conscientious objection.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Kovac moved with his family to Portland, Oregon, in 1961. He graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1966 and entered Reed College. He graduated from Reed in 1970 with a B.A. in Chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and chosen as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In September 1970 he began graduate study in chemistry at Yale University where he completed his doctoral research on polymer dynamics under the direction of Marshall Fixman in 1974. He spent two years as a postdoctoral research associate at MITworking with Irwin Oppenheimon the theory of hydrodynamic boundary conditions.

In 1976 Kovac joined the faculty of the University of Tennesseeas Assistant Professor of Chemistry