Peter M. Rentzepis

Last updated

Peter M. Rentzepis
Born (1934-12-11) 11 December 1934 (age 91)
Kalamata, Greece
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Physical chemistry
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Sir Morris Sugden [1]
Notable students Villy Sundström

Peter Michael Rentzepis (born 11 December 1934) is a Greek-born American physical chemist.

Contents

Education and career

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

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

  1. ↑ https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21433405640003606
  2. ↑ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
  3. 1 2 3 "Peter M. Rentzepis". Marquis Who's Who Top Educators. 20 September 2017. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "2001 Peter M. Rentzepis, UC Irvine". Southern California Section of the American Physical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Peter M. Rentzepis". Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "US-5268862-A - Patent Public Search | USPTO". ppubs.uspto.gov. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  7. ↑ "US-5325324-A - Patent Public Search | USPTO". ppubs.uspto.gov. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "60 scientists named to national academy". The New York Times. 30 April 1978. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  10. ↑ "Peter M. Rentzepis". United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  12. ↑ "American Physical Society presents awards to four". Physics Today. 24 (6): 69. 1973. doi:10.1063/1.3128026.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.