Biography:Thor Rhodin

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Thor Rhodin
DiedFebruary 17, 2006(2006-02-17) (aged 85)
Ithaca, New York
Alma materHaverford College (B.S.)
Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied and Engineering Physics
InstitutionsCornell University
Doctoral advisorHugh Scott Taylor
Doctoral studentsWard 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.

Education

Academic genealogy

  • Thor Rhodin was a student of Hugh Scott Taylor.
    • Taylor was a student of Frederick George Donnan and Henry Bassett [Ref.1].
      • Donnan was trained by Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
        • Ostwald's adviser was Schmidt, Carl,
          • who was a student of Justus von Liebig.
      • Bassett was trained by Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger.

Sources

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

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