{{short description|American chemist}} '''Robert M. Waymouth''' (born 1960) is an American chemist. He is the Robert Eckles Swain Professor in Chemistry at Stanford University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-waymouth |title=Robert Waymouth |publisher=stanford.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
==Early life and education== He was born in 1960 in Warner Robins, Georgia. In 1982 he earned a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in mathematics from Washington and Lee University. He received a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and did postdoctoral research at the Institut fur Polymere in Zürich, Switzerland.<ref name="faculty page">{{cite web|url=https://chemistry.stanford.edu/people/robert-m-waymouth|title=Robert M. Waymouth|work=Stanford University|accessdate=2 November 2017|archive-date=11 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211105626/https://chemistry.stanford.edu/people/robert-m-waymouth|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== He became an assistant professor at Stanford in 1988 and a full professor in 1997. In 2000 he was named the Robert Eckles Swain Professor of Chemistry. He heads the Waymouth Group, which applies mechanistic principles to develop new concepts in catalysis.<ref name = "faculty page"/> He has a particular interest in the disposal and recycling of plastics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://chemistry.stanford.edu/news/qa-robert-waymouth-history-and-future-global-plastics-economy|title=Q&A with Robert Waymouth: the history and future of the global plastics economy|last=Stein|first=Vicky|date=October 25, 2017|work=Stanford News|accessdate=2 November 2017}}</ref>
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