Thor Rhodin

Thor Rhodin
Fields Applied and Engineering Physics
Institutions Cornell University
Doctoral advisor Hugh Scott Taylor
Doctoral students Ward Plummer

Thor Rhodin, late Professor Emeritus, Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, 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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