Peter Thrower (born 1938) is a professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University,Emeritus faculty listing , Materials Science & Engineering, Penn State University, retrieved 2011-02-18. and a former editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Carbon,Carbon editorial board, Elsevier, retrieved 2011-02-18. a post he has held between 1982 and 2013. A special issue of Carbon was published in his honor in August 2012.Festschrift dedicated to Peter A. Thrower, Editor-in-Chief, 1972 – 2012. sciencedirect.com He also edited the review journal Chemistry and Physics of Carbon from 1973 to 1998.Speaker biography from Carbon Journal Workshop on Carbon Materials for Energy Storage and Generation, retrieved 2011-02-18. He is a specialist on carbon in all its forms.
Thrower studied physics at the University of Cambridge. He then took up a position at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, UK) before moving to Pennsylvania State University, where he remained until he retired in 1998.
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