Charles Kirkham Rhodes

Background

Rhodes, Charles Kirkham was born on June 30, 1939 in Mineola, New York, United States. Son of Walter Cortlyn and Evelyn (Kirkham) Rhodes.

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1963; Master of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969.

Career

Research assistant, Chalmers U., Gothenburg, Sweden, 1963; research associate radiation laboratory, Columbia University, 1969; staff specialist, Control Data Corporation, Melville, New York, 1969-1970; physicist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory/University of California, 1970-1975; lecturer department applied science, University of California, Davis, 1971-1975; program manager Molecular Physics Center, Stanford Research Institute and consultant professor department electrical engineering, Stanford University, 1975-1978; professor physics, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1978-1982; research professor physics, University of Illinois-Chicago, since 1982. Consultant atomic and molecular physics, laser research.

Achievements

• Charles Kirkham Rhodes has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society, Optical Society American. Member Joint Council on Quantum Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior. Editor special issue 1979), European Physical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.

Connections

Married Mary M. Cannon, October 23, 1976. Children: Lisa, Gregory, Edward, Elizabeth.

Father:

Walter Cortlyn Rhodes

Mother:

Evelyn (Kirkham) Rhodes

Spouse:

Mary M. Cannon

child:

Elizabeth Rhodes

child:

Lisa Rhodes

child:

Gregory Rhodes

child:

Edward Rhodes