Jan Peter Toennies
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Jan Peter Toennies (born 3 May 1930) is a German-American scientist.
Early life and education
[edit]He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 3 May 1930 to German immigrant parents.[1] He is the grandson of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies.
He graduated from Lower Merion High School, outside of Philadelphia, in 1948. He went on to Amherst College, where he finished with a BA in 1952, and to Brown University, where he received a PhD in chemistry in 1957. During graduate school he was a Fulbright student in Göttingen 1953–1954.[1]
Monographs
[edit]- E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemische Reaktionen in Stoßwellen, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt, 1959
- E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemical Reactions in Shock Waves, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. London, 1964
- G. Benedek and J. Peter Toennies: Atomic Scale Dynamics at Surfaces: Theory and Experimental Studies with Helium Atom Scattering, Springer, Heidelberg, 2018
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Short Curriculum Vitae of J. Peter Toennies". Retrieved 22 December 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Z. Herman (1995). "Jan Peter Toennies On his 65th Birthday". Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie. 99 (5): 781–782. doi:10.1002/bbpc.19950990516.
- J.P. Toennies (2004). "Serendipitous meanderings and adventures with molecular beams". Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 55: 1–33. Bibcode:2004ARPC...55....1T. doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.55.081203.151413. PMID 15117245.
- G. Benedek; M. Lewerenz; G. Niedner-Schateburg; A. Vilesov (2011). "Special-Issue: J. Peter Toennies Festschrift". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 115 (25): 6739–7399. ISSN 1089-5639.
- Benedek, Giorgio; Manson, Joseph R.; Miret-Artés, Salvador (2021). G. Benedek; J. R. Manson; S. Miret-Artes (eds.). "Festschrift for Peter Toennies - New horizons in the dynamics of molecules: from gases to surfaces". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23 (13): 7507–8076. Bibcode:2021PCCP...23.7523B. doi:10.1039/D1CP90026A. hdl:10261/262970. ISSN 1463-9076. PMID 33599671. S2CID 231952741.
External links
[edit]- J. Peter Toennies publications indexed by Google Scholar
Categories:
- Brown University alumni
- Scientists from Philadelphia
- Amherst College alumni
- University of Bonn alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
- Living people
- 1930 births
- American people of German descent
- Founding members of the World Cultural Council
- Lower Merion High School alumni
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates