Robert E. Thorne
Professor of Physics
Date and Place of Birth:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Citizenship:
USA and Canadian
Education:
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1987. Thesis title: Charge-Density-Wave Transport in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors.
B.S., University of Manitoba, Electrical Engineering, 1981. Thesis title: Syntactic Recognition of Abnormalities in the Electroencephalogram.
Professional Positions:
1988-1994: Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1994-2000: Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000-present: Professor of Physics, Cornell University
2004-2011: President and Founding Member, Mitegen, LLC: Microtechnologies for Structural Genomics
2011-present: Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Mitegen, LLC
Awards and Honors:
University of Manitoba Gold Medal, 1981
Manitoba Telephone System Thesis Prize, 1981
NSERC Science 1967 Award, 1981
Ross T. Martin Distinguished Graduate Research Award, 1987
Ethel and Minoru Tsutsui Distinguished Graduate Research Award, New York Academy of Sciences, 1987
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1989
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, 2011
Teaching & Education:
Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award, 2004
Faculty Appreciation Award (Cornell Fraternities and Sororities), 2006
Class of 1972 Innovations in Teaching Award, 2007
Course Director for Physics, Weill Cornell Medical School in Qatar, 2004-2013
Director, Cornell Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) site, 2007-present