Peter M. Rentzepis

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Peter M. Rentzepis
Born (1934-12-11) 11 December 1934 (age 87)
Kalamata, Greece
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Physical chemistry
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Martin Ryle [1]
Notable students Villy Sundström

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

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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]

Honors and awards

Rentzepis was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972, [6] and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978. [7] [8] He won the 1982 Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society, [9] followed in 1989 by the Irving Langmuir Award from the American Physical Society, [10] and in 2001 by the Tolman Award of the ACS Southern California Section. [4]

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