Robert M. Rose

Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Concourse Program

SB Physical Metallurgy, MIT, 1958
ScD Metallurgy and Materials Science, MIT, 1961

Room 8-031, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA  02139
617-253-3230 (phone) 617-258-6118 (fax)
rose@mit.edu

Prof. Rose, now retired from DMSE, directs MIT's Concourse Program.

Selected Publications

"A Local Biomechanical Model for the Bone Cement Interface," Technical Prinicples, Design and Safety of Implants, G. H. Buckhorn, H,-G. Willert. Hogrefe & Huber, Toronto, Lewistown, NY, Bern, Gottingen, Stuttgart ISBN 0-88937-090-7, ISBN 3-456-82161 (1994) (with others). 

"Crack Detection in Conducting Materials Using SQUID Magnetometry," J. of Nondestructive Evaluation 12 (4): 199 (1993) (with Ronald R. Gans). 

"Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene in Total Joint Replacement Prostheses: A Long-Term Perspective of Performance and Wear," J. Long-Term Wear Effects of Medical Implants 4 (7): (1994) (with Janelle Gunther). 

The Chicken From Minsk, Basic Books Division of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY (May, 1995) (with Yuri Chernyak). 

"Fatigue Strength of Polyethylene After Sterilization by Gamma Irradiation or Ethylene Oxide," Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research v. 333 (1996) pp. 87-95 (with others).

"The Politically Correct Periodic Table" in Best of Annals of Improbable Research (M. Abrahams, editor) (1998) p. 101.

Professor Rose recently represented hamentashen in the annual hamentashen vs. latke debate at MIT (see Tech Talk for more details).