Peter Thrower

 

Prof. Thrower started research on graphite at AERE Harwell, UK at the end of 1960 when he was (reluctantly) assigned to study the effects of neutron irradiation on graphite single crystals.  He attended his first US Carbon Conference in 1967 at SUNY Buffalo, NY the home of one of the founders of the American Carbon Society, Prof. Stach Mrozowski.  Two years later was invited to attend the conference at Boston College and present one of the plenary lectures and later that year he moved to Penn State University to work with Prof. Phil Walker who is usually regarded as the society’s co-founder.  In 1982 he was appointed to succeed Prof. Mrozowski as Editor-in-Chief of CARBON, a position he has held for 25 years. Prof. Thrower served on the Executive Committee of the American Carbon Society for 22 years, from 1982 to 2004.   In 1998 he retired from Penn State and returned to his home village in the UK where he spends most mornings thinking about carbon with the afternoons occupied in his large garden.