Peter Thrower (born 1938) is a

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and

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, and a former

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of the

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'', a post he has held between 1982 and 2013. A special issue of ''

'' 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

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in all its forms. Thrower studied physics at the

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. He then took up a position at the

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(Harwell, UK) before moving to Pennsylvania State University, where he remained until he retired in 1998.

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1938 births British physicists Carbon scientists Living people Pennsylvania State University faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{UK-physicist-stub