Karl Freed

Karl Frederick Freed is an American theoretical chemist recognized for his research in polymer physics. Freed has spent his academic career in the department of chemistry and the James Frank Institute at the University of Chicago, where he is the Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor emeritus. He is a member of the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences], a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and was awarded the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society in 2014 and the Award in Pure Chemistry by the American [Chemical Society] in 1976.

Education

Stuyvesant High School
Columbia University, B.S., 1963
Harvard University, A.M., 1965; Ph.D., 1967

Career and research

Freed was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester from 1967-1968.
Two of Freed's former doctoral students have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Moungi Bawendi in 2023 and John M. Jumper in 2024.