Thor Rhodin
Thor Rhodin | |
|---|---|
| Scientific career | |
| 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.
Education
- B.S. 1942 (Haverford);
- Ph.D. 1946 (Princeton University)
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.
- Ostwald's adviser was Schmidt, Carl,
- Bassett was trained by Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger.
- Baeyer was a student of Robert Bunsen and Friedrich August Kekulé.
- Bunsen was a student of Friedrich Stromeyer.
- Kekulé was a student of Heinrich Will.
- Baeyer was a student of Robert Bunsen and Friedrich August Kekulé.
- Donnan was trained by Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
- Taylor was a student of Frederick George Donnan and Henry Bassett [Ref.1].
Sources
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/rhodintn.pdf