"Physics is hard, but worth it!"

Robert L. Kleinberg
Born in San Francisco

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, 1971

University of California, Berkeley

Doctorate degree in Physics, 1978

University of California, San Diego

I was born in San Francisco, where I went through the public school system. I survived Berkeley in the 1960's, then went to graduate school in San Diego. There I spent years working in the gloomy basement of the Physics building while my friends were down on the beach sharpening their volleyball skills. My experiments on liquid helium in those days earned me the title "Coldest Man in the Universe". I spent the years of the Energy Crisis working on small, light batteries to power electric automobiles. The batteries turned out to be too small and too light to be used in automobiles, but they were just right for wristwatches (before you laugh, look at your wrist).

Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Corporate Research Laboratory of Exxon Research and Engineering Company, I joined Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1980. I have been program leader of Applied Electromagnetics and am presently a senior research scientist and scientific advisor. My main projects at Schlumberger have been in the areas of ultrasonics, electrical resistivity, nuclear magnetic resonance, and gravimetry. I have published 48 academic and professional papers, hold 10 U.S. patents, and I am the inventor of the Oil Base Mud Dipmeter (OBDT)* and the Combinable Magnetic Resonance Tool (CMR)*, both of which have been commercialized on a worldwide basis.

*Mark of Schlumberger