Thomas Eugene Everhart

Thomas Eugene Everhart
Everhart in 1987
5th President of the California Institute of Technology
In office 1987–1997
Preceded by	Marvin Goldberger
Succeeded by	David Baltimore
4th Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In office 1984–1987
Preceded by	John E. Cribbet
Succeeded by	Morton W. Weir
Personal details
Born	(1932-02-15) February 15, 1932 (age 92) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MS) Clare College, Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) Clark Kerr Award (1992) ASEE Centennial Medallion (1993) IEEE Founders Medal (2002) Okawa Prize (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge
Thesis	Contrast formation in the scanning electron microscope (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Oatley

Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng (born February 15, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri)^[1] is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams. Together with Richard F. M. Thornley he designed the Everhart–Thornley detector. These detectors are still in use in scanning electron microscopes, even though the first such detector was made available as early as 1956.

Everhart was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to the electron optics of the scanning electron microscope and to its use in electronics and biology. He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990.^[2] He served as chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984 to 1987 and as the president of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997.