Thomas Eugene Everhart
Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng (born February 15, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams. Together with Richard F. M. Thornley he designed the Everhart–Thornley detector. These detectors are still in use in scanning electron microscopes, even though the first such detector was made available as early as 1956.
Thomas Eugene Everhart | |
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Everhart in 1987 | |
| 5th President of the California Institute of Technology | |
| In office 1987–1997 | |
| Preceded by | Marvin Goldberger |
| Succeeded by | David Baltimore |
| 4th Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| In office 1984–1987 | |
| Preceded by | John E. Cribbet |
| Succeeded by | Morton W. Weir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 15, 1932 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard College, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Cambridge |
| Awards | IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) Clark Kerr Award (1992) ASEE Centennial Medallion (1993) IEEE Founders Medal (2002) Okawa Prize (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Contrast formation in the scanning electron microscope (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Oatley |
Everhart was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to the electron optics of the scanning electron microscope and to its use in electronics and biology. He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990. He served as chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984 to 1987 and as the president of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997.