Background
Rheingold was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 6, 1940.
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Arnold Rheingold
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He completed his Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry in 1962 and Master of Surgery in Inorganic Chemistry in 1963 from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1969.
Career
From 1963 to 1965, he was a Project Manager at Glidden Company. After completing his Doctor of Philosophy Rheingold became Associate Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also worked on the faculty of State University of New York, Plattsburgh and State University of New York, Buffalo before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1981.
He left Delaware in 2003 and joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego.
Rheingold"s fields of expertise and research interest are main-group and transition-metal organometallic chemistry, gas-phase cluster synthesis, thermoelectric materials and single-crystal structural determinations. His research explores ways of using X-ray crystallography to provide rapid and accurate structural characterizations of new compounds in collaboration with several chemists from many other departments worldwide.
He is one of the most cited researchers in Chemistry in the world.
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