Thor Rhodin
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Late Professor Emeritus, Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University
, Thor Rhodin 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 metal
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Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Thor Rhodin is credited with pioneering work in the birth and evolution of surface science beginning with his research on surface sensitivity using auger electron spectroscopy
Auger electron spectroscopy
Auger electron spectroscopy is a common analytical technique used specifically in the study of surfaces and, more generally, in the area of materials science...
. He played a major role, over several decades, in shaping the development of the field from fundamental work, using the field ion microscope
Field ion microscope
Field ion microscopy is an analytical technique used in materials science. The field ion microscope is a type of microscope that can be used to image the arrangement of atoms at the surface of a sharp metal tip....
, on the imaging and bonding of individual atoms at surfaces to the fundamentals of surface catalysis of hydrocarbon chemistry by the transition metal
Transition metal
The term transition metal has two possible meanings:*The IUPAC definition states that a transition metal is "an element whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell." Group 12 elements are not transition metals in this definition.*Some...
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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 LiebigJustus von LiebigJustus von Liebig was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the...
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- who was a student of Justus von Liebig
- Ostwald's adviser was Schmidt, Carl,
- Bassett was trained by Adolf von BaeyerAdolf von BaeyerJohann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen...
and Victor VilligerVictor VilligerVictor Villiger was a Swiss-born German chemist and the discoverer of the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation.-Life:...
.- Baeyer was a student of Robert BunsenRobert BunsenRobert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic...
and Friedrich August Kekulé. <<--not even possible- Bunsen was a student of Friedrich Stromeyer.
- Kekulé was a student of Heinrich Will.
- Baeyer was a student of Robert Bunsen
- Donnan was trained by Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
- Taylor was a student of Frederick George Donnan and Henry Bassett [Ref.1].
External links
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