Background
Rentzepis, Peter M. was born on December 11, 1934 in Kalamata, Greece.
Rentzepis, Peter M. was born on December 11, 1934 in Kalamata, Greece.
Bachelor of Science, Denison U., 1957; Honorary Doctor of Science, Denison U., 1981; Master of Science, Syracuse University, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Syracuse University, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge U., 1963; Doctor of Science (honorary), Carnegie-Mellon U., 1983; Doctor of Science (honorary), Technology U. Greece, Athens, Greece, 1995.
Member technical staff, research laboratories, General Electric Company, Schenectady, 1960-1962;
member technical staff, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1963-1973;
head physical and inorganic chemistry research department, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1973-1985;
Presidential professor of chemistry, University of California, Irvine, since 1986;
Presidential chair, University of California, Irvine, since 1985;
regent lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1984. Visiting professor Rockefeller U., New York City, 1971, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, to 1975. Visiting professor of chemistry U. Tel Aviv.
Adjunct Professor University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. With Center Biological Studies, State University of New York-Albany, since 1979. Adjunct professor of chemistry and biophysics Yale University, New Haven, since 1980.
Member numerous advisory bodies. Lecturer Robert A. Welch Foundation, 1975. Faculty lecturer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1978.
International Business Machines Corporation lecturer Williams College, 1979. Lecturer distinguished lecture series U. Utah, 1980. Xerox lecturer North Carolina State University, 1980.
Frank C.Whitmore lecturer in chemistry Pennsylvania State University, 1981. Dreyfus distinguished scholar lecturer, 1982. Regent lecturer University of California, 1982, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985.
Harry S. Ganning distinguished lecturer U. Alberta, Canada, 1984. Member International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Commission onMolecular Structure and Spectroscopy. Chairman 1981 International Conference on Photochemistry and Photobiology.
Board directors Science and Technology Resources for Greece. Member commission on kinetics National Academy Sciences, National Research Council. Chairman fast reaction chemistry United States Foreign Applied Science Assessment Center.
With North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institutions, since 1984. Director Quanex Corporation.
Fellow New York Academy Sciences (A Cressy Morrison award 1978), American Physical Society (chairman chemical physics division 1979-1980, Executive Committee 1980-1982, chairman nominating committee 1981, Irving Langmuir award 1973). Member NAS, National Academy Greece, American Chemical Society (Executive Committee division physical chemistry to 1978, Peter Debye award physical chemistry 1982), Inter-American Photochem. Society (nominating county, chairman physical division Laser Conference prize 1989), Sigma Xi.
M. Alma Elizabeth Keenan. Children— Michael, John.
