Dick Bedeaux

Born Sept. 19. 1941, in The Hague, Netherlands.

Education

Master degree in Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, November 1964.
PhD degree for a thesis on ” The relation between the virial coefficients and the scattering operator”. Advisor Prof. Dr. N.G. van Kampen at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, May 1969

Positions held

Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. K.E. Shuler, Department of Chemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA: 1969 ‑ 1971
Visiting professor at the Institut für Theoretische Physikalische Chemie, Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany (BRD): 1971 ‑ 1972
Research associate, Instituut‑Lorentz, University of Leiden, The Netherlands: 1972 ‑ 1981
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Institutt for Teoretisk Fysikk, Norges Tekniske Hogskole, Trondheim, Norway: 1981 ‑ 1983
Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands: 1984 ‑ 2006
Visiting professor University of Kyoto: April – October 2000
Visiting professor University of Barcelona: February-June 2004
Professor II of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway: 2003 – now

Honours

Masters degree Cum Laude: 1964
Elected as Foreign Member of the “Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences”: 1996-present
Onsager medal for his contribution to the formulation of the Onsager reciprocal relations for surfaces: Dec. 1997
Elected as “Fellow of the American Physical Society” for “his contribution to the statistical physics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of surfaces”: 1997-present
Onsager professor, Institute of Physical Chemistry, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway: 1997 – 1998
Guest professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK: 1997‑2005
Main address at a symposium in commemoration of Prof. Dr. R. Kubo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan: Sept. 1998
Guest professor at the Department of Fundamental Energy Science, Faculty of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan: 2000
Symposium on the occasion of 60^th birthday: Optical and thermodynamic properties of surfaces: Sept. 2001
Festschrift on the occasion of 60^th birthday: Statistical Thermodynamics and Colloid Science. Published as issue 298 of Physica A: Sept. 2001
Guest professor University of Barcelona: 2004
Front page Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: Issue 17, 2006
Invitation for extraordinary sabbatical at Centre of Advanced studies: 2007-2008
Elected Member of the “Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters”: 2011 – present
Symposium on the occasion of 70^th birthday: Optical and thermodynamic properties of surfaces: Sept. 2011