Biography
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, and a Graduate Teaching Award from Rutgers University in 1995. He received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the U. of Wroclaw, Poland, in 2004. He serves on many U. S. and international advisory committees, is a past-president of the American Vacuum Society (1981) and is Past-President of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), 1992-1995. He is author and co-author of over 380 publications, mainly dealing with the use of ultrahigh vacuum methods to characterize the physics and chemistry of surface processes. He is married to Jane Mary Madey, and they have four children and thirteen grandchildren.
