Background
Weinberg, William Henry was born on December 5, 1944 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Ulrich Vivian and Ruth Ann (Duncan) Weinberg.
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Surface crystallography plays the same fundamental role in surface science which bulk crystallography has played so successfully in solid-state physics and chemistry. The atomic-scale structure is one of the most important aspects in the understanding of the behavior of surfaces in such widely diverse fields as heterogeneous catalysis, microelectronics, adhesion, lubrication, cor rosion, coatings, and solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces. Low-Energy Electron Diffraction or LEED has become the prime tech nique used to determine atomic locations at surfaces. On one hand, LEED has yielded the most numerous and complete structural results to date (almost 200 structures), while on the other, LEED has been regarded as the "technique to beat" by a variety of other surface crystallographic methods, such as photoemission, SEXAFS, ion scattering and atomic diffraction. Although these other approaches have had impressive successes, LEED has remained the most productive technique and has shown the most versatility of application: from adsorbed rare gases, to reconstructed surfaces of sem iconductors and metals, to molecules adsorbed on metals. However, these statements should not be viewed as excessively dogmatic since all surface sensitive techniques retain untapped potentials that will undoubtedly be explored and exploited. Moreover, surface science remains a multi-technique endeavor. In particular, LEED never has been and never will be self sufficient. LEED has evolved considerably and, in fact, has reached a watershed.
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Weinberg, William Henry was born on December 5, 1944 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Ulrich Vivian and Ruth Ann (Duncan) Weinberg.
Bachelor of Science, University of Southern California, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1970; North Atlantic Treaty Organization postdoctoral fellow in physical chemistry, Cambridge U., England, 1971.
Assistant professor chemical engineering, California Institute Technology, 1972-1974;
associate professor, California Institute Technology, 1974-1977;
professor chemical engineering and chemical physics, California Institute Technology, 1977-1989;
Chevron distinguished professor chemical engineering and chemical physics, California Institute Technology, 1981-1986;
professor chemical engineering and chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1989;
associate dean College Engineering, University California, Santa Barbara, 1992-1996;
chief technical officer, Symyx Technologies, Santa Clara, California, since 1996. Visiting professor of chemistry Harvard University, 1980, U. Pittsburgh, 1987-1988, University of Oxford,1991. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow U. Munich, 1982.
Consultant E.I. DuPont Company.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (Nottingham prize 1972), American Vacuum Society. Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Colburn award 1981), American Chemical Society (LaMer award 1973, Kendall award 1991, Arthur W. Adamson award 1995), North America Catalysis Society, National Academy Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa.