George Lubin
Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Inducted 1982
George Lubin (1904 – 1985) was one of the world’s foremost experts in carbon filament composites and boron/epoxy laminates. During World War II, he directed the U.S. Navy’s Plastics Laboratory and became active in the aerospace industry.
Lubin graduated from City College of New York with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering. As a researcher, he led early composite development at the New York Applied Science Labs, Basson Industries. Subsequently, he had a long and distinguished career at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, where he retired as Chief Scientist. Lubin was an originator in the field of fiber-reinforced plastics and a pioneer in developing and implementing advanced structural composites.
Lubin was also the editor of the Handbook of Fiberglass and Advanced Plastics Composites (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969) and the Handbook of Composites (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982). He was program manager for a United Nations composites program in India. Lubin received many industry awards, including the Man of the Year Award from the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI, now PLASTICS) and the International Award and Gold Medal from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in 1982, the same year he was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame and awarded an Honorary Fellowship from The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). Upon his death, the SAMPE organization created the George Lubin Award to recognize others who have significantly contributed to materials and process engineering.
Areas of Expertise:
Plastics materials