Background
Prewitt, Charles Thompson was born on March 3, 1933 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of John Burton and Margaret (Thompson) Prewitt.
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Charles Thompson Prewitt
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.
Career
Research scientist, E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 1962-1969;
associate professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1969-1971;
professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1971-1986;
department chairman earth and space science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1977-1980;
director, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1986-1998;
member research staff, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Washington, since 1998. Secretary-treasurer United States National Committee for Crystallography, Washington, 1983-1985. General chairman 14th Meeting of International Mineral.
Association, Stanford, California, 1986. Chairman National Research Council/National Academy Sciences commission on physics and chemistry of earth materials, 1985-1987. Member of the Board of Governors Consortium for Advanced Radiation Superior vena cava syndrome.
Co-director National Science Foundation Center for High Pressure Research, since 1991.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors International Center for Diffraction Data, since 1998. Captain United States Army Reserve, 1956-1965. Fellow Mineral. Society American (president 1983-1984), American Geophysical Union.
Member Geological Society American, American Crystallographic Association, Materials Research Society, Mineral. Society Great Britain and Ireland.
Connections
Married Gretchen B. Hansen, January 31, 1958. Children: Daniel Hansen.
