Robert Bruce Meyer (born 13 October 1943, St. Louis)[1] is an American physicist and professor at Brandeis University.[2] Meyer graduated from Harvard University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree and in 1970 with a doctoral degree with advisor David Turnbull[3] and dissertation on effects of electromagnetic fields on the structure of liquid crystals.[4] At Harvard, Meyer was a post-doctoral student and became in 1971 an assistant professor and in 1974 an associate professor. At Brandeis University he was appointed an associate professor in 1978 and a full professor in 1985.[3] He was a visiting professor in 1977 of Nordita at Chalmers University in Gothenburg and in 1978 Joliot Curie Professor at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle in Paris. Less