Theodore E. Madey received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of Notre Dame in 1963. From 1963 to 1988, he was at the National Bureau of
Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology) as an NBS
Research Fellow and Leader of the Surface Structure and Kinetics Group. In
1988, he was appointed State of NJ Professor of Surface Science and
Director of the Laboratory for Surface Modification at Rutgers University.
He has spent periods as a visiting scientist at the Technical University of
Munich (1973), Sandia National Laboratory (1977) and the Fritz Haber
Institute, Berlin (1982). In 1981, he was appointed Chevron Visiting
Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of
Technology. He was the 1985 winner of the M. W. Welch Award of the
American Vacuum Society, and received a U. S. Presidential Rank Award in
1988. He was granted the E. W. Mueller Award of the University of
Wisconsin in 1991. He serves on many U. S. and international advisory
committees, is a past-president of the American Vacuum Society (1981) and
is immediate Past-President of the International Union for Vacuum Science,
Technique and Applications (IUVSTA). He is author and co-author of over
300 publications, mainly dealing with the use of ultrahigh vacuum methods
to characterize the physics and chemistry of surface processes.
