So by bringing the flowers to shows and meetings, he found the people around him very interesting.”ĭr. “And he found the people who grew them interesting as well. “I think he found them challenging and relaxing,” she said. By the time we were sophomores in college, he was teaching grad students.” His teaching skills were recognized from an early age.
“I would also guess that his students would feel respected, even when they had a hard time understanding the material he was teaching. “He always wanted to be sure that his teaching was understood, taking whatever time was needed,” he wrote. Robbins had a knack for breaking down difficult concepts for students. “He liked to figure out how things worked at the molecular scale,” she said from their home in Baltimore.ĭr. Robbins in 1993 in Minneapolis, said her husband enjoyed teaching, mentoring, and researching equally. He also understood the experimental side of physics as few theoretical physicists do, which led him to make unique insights.” “Many of the phenomena Mark studied can be described as ‘far from equilibrium.’ Research into such problems was somewhat outside the mainstream when Mark got started, but the work of early pioneers like Mark showed the rich physics that could be uncovered from the study of such phenomena and helped to make them established areas of physics research.
“Among the topics in which Mark made seminal contributions include the physics of friction and adhesion, the mechanics of fracture, and polymers,” Dr. Robbins’ specialized field of study was non-equilibrium processes such as friction and adhesion, analyzing the atomic origins of macroscopic phenomena like earthquakes and avalanches. He then completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Exxon’s Corporate Research Science Laboratory in Annandale, New Jersey, before joining Johns Hopkins in 1986.ĭr. Robbins spent a year as a Churchill Fellow at the University of Cambridge in England before earning a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. After graduating from Harvard University in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in physics, Dr.
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