Thor Rhodin Explained

Thor Rhodin
Birth Date:9 December 1920
Death Place:Ithaca, New York
Field:Applied and Engineering Physics
Work Institution:Cornell University
Alma Mater:Haverford College (B.S.)
Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Doctoral Students:Ward Plummer

Thor Nathaniel Rhodin (December 9, 1920 – February 17, 2006) was an American professor of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University and the University of Chicago's James Franck Institute, and is credited with pioneering work in the birth and evolution of surface science beginning with his research on surface sensitivity using auger electron spectroscopy. He played a major role, over several decades, in shaping the development of the field from fundamental work, using the field ion microscope, on the imaging and bonding of individual atoms at surfaces to the fundamentals of surface catalysis of hydrocarbon chemistry by the transition metals.

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http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/rhodintn.pdf

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