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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