Thomas Eugene Everhart
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Thomas Eugene Everhart (born 1932) is a U.S. educator and physicist. He served as the President of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams.
Together with RFM 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 currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon.
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| Preceded by Marvin Leonard Goldberger |
President of the California Institute of Technology 1987–1997 |
Succeeded by David Baltimore |
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