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Jan Peter Toennies (born 3 May 1930) is a German-American scientist.

Early life and education

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 3 May 1930 to German immigrant parents.^[1] He is the grandson of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies.

He graduated from Lower Merion High School, outside of Philadelphia, in 1948. He went on to Amherst College, where he finished with a BA in 1952, and to Brown University, where he received a PhD in chemistry in 1957. During graduate school he was a Fulbright student in Göttingen 1953–1954.^[1]

Monographs

E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemische Reaktionen in Stoßwellen, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt, 1959
E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemical Reactions in Shock Waves, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. London, 1964
G. Benedek and J. Peter Toennies: Atomic Scale Dynamics at Surfaces: Theory and Experimental Studies with Helium Atom Scattering, Springer, Heidelberg, 2018

References

^ ^a ^b "Short Curriculum Vitae of J. Peter Toennies". Retrieved 22 December 2023.

Further reading

Z. Herman (1995). "Jan Peter Toennies On his 65th Birthday". Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie. 99 (5): 781–782. doi:10.1002/bbpc.19950990516.
J.P. Toennies (2004). "Serendipitous meanderings and adventures with molecular beams". Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 55: 1–33. Bibcode:2004ARPC...55....1T. doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.55.081203.151413. PMID 15117245.
G. Benedek; M. Lewerenz; G. Niedner-Schateburg; A. Vilesov (2011). "Special-Issue: J. Peter Toennies Festschrift". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 115 (25): 6739–7399. ISSN 1089-5639.
Benedek, Giorgio; Manson, Joseph R.; Miret-Artés, Salvador (2021). G. Benedek; J. R. Manson; S. Miret-Artes (eds.). "Festschrift for Peter Toennies - New horizons in the dynamics of molecules: from gases to surfaces". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23 (13): 7507–8076. Bibcode:2021PCCP...23.7523B. doi:10.1039/D1CP90026A. hdl:10261/262970. ISSN 1463-9076. PMID 33599671. S2CID 231952741.

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