Background
Reich, Robert Claude was born on November 2, 1929 in Paris, France. Son of Felix andNelly (Belestin) R. Engineer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie Paris, 1953.
Reich, Robert Claude was born on November 2, 1929 in Paris, France. Son of Felix andNelly (Belestin) R. Engineer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie Paris, 1953.
Engineer, Ecole National Supérieure de Chimie, Paris, 1953. License ès Sciences Physiques, 1954. Docteur ès Sciences Physiques, University Paris, 1965.
Attaché de recherche Centre National de La Recherche Science, Centre d'Etudes de Chimie Métallurgique, Vitry sur Seine, France, 1953-1954, 58-65. Chargé de recherche Laboratory de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France, 1965-1971, maître de recherche France, 1971-1983, directeur de recherche France, since 1984.
Member Société Française de Physique, Société Françaisede Métallurgie, European Physical Society, Electrochemical Society (United States), International Society Electrochemistry (past secretary French section), American Society Metal. Research and publications on purification of metals by zone-melting, electrical resistivity of metals versus purity (observed temperature squared term of ideal resistivity in non-magnetic metals), deviations from Matthiessen"s rule, supraconducting transition in tin, determination of characteristic Debye temperatures, ferminology studies in mercury, size-effect, ionic interactions in solutions, electrolyte glass transitions, anodic dissolution of metals, corrosion, superconducting oxides, metallurgy and structure of quasicrystals.
Married Françoise Thiébault, June 10, 1972. Married Michèle Hélène Brand'Huy, December 29, 1981.