Peter M. Rentzepis
Peter M. Rentzepis | |
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| Born | 11 December 1934 Kalamata, Greece |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Physical chemistry |
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| Doctoral advisor | Martin Ryle[1] |
| Notable students | Villy Sundström |
Peter Michael Rentzepis (born 11 December 1934) is a Greek-born American physical chemist.
Education and career
[edit]Rentzepis is a native of Kalamata born on 11 December 1934,[2] Rentzepis attended the 1st Lykion in his hometown and graduated from Denison University and Syracuse University in the United States before pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, graduating in 1963.[3][4] Rentzepis, who joined Bell Labs in 1963, after two years at General Electric,[5] led the physical and inorganic chemistry research department at Bell between 1973 and 1985, and taught at University of California, Irvine from 1974 to 2014,[3] serving in a presidential chair professorship from 1985.[4] In 2014, Rentzepis was appointed TEES Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.[3] While at the university, he submitted an application in 1989 and published after patents (US5268862A [6] & US5325324A [7] - Three-dimensional optical memory) approval in 1994. Based on research under grant No. F30602-97-C-0014 between the United States Air Force (USAF) acting through its Office of Special Research (AFOSR) and The Regents of the University of California.
Honors and awards
[edit]Rentzepis was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972,[8] and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978.[9][10] He won the 1982 Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society,[11] followed in 1989 by the Irving Langmuir Award from the American Physical Society,[12] and in 2001 by the Tolman Award of the ACS Southern California Section.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Peter M. Rentzepis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
- ^ a b c "Peter M. Rentzepis". Marquis Who's Who Top Educators. 20 September 2017.
- ^ a b c "2001 Peter M. Rentzepis, UC Irvine". Southern California Section of the American Physical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Peter M. Rentzepis". Texas A&M University. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "US-5268862-A - Patent Public Search | USPTO". ppubs.uspto.gov. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ "US-5325324-A - Patent Public Search | USPTO". ppubs.uspto.gov. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "60 scientists named to national academy". The New York Times. 30 April 1978. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Peter M. Rentzepis". United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "American Physical Society presents awards to four". Physics Today. 24 (6): 69. 1973. doi:10.1063/1.3128026.
- 1934 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American chemists
- 21st-century American chemists
- Greek emigrants to the United States
- Scientists from Kalamata
- Denison University alumni
- Syracuse University alumni
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- American physical chemists
- University of California, Irvine faculty
- Texas A&M University faculty
- General Electric people