page_title: Thomas Eugene Everhart
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Eugene Everhart
caption_attribution_description: English: California Institute of Technology President Thomas Everhart
context_page_description: Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams. Together with Richard F. M. 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 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978. He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990. He served as Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984 to 1987 and as the President of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997.
context_section_description: Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng (born February 15, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams.  Together with Richard F. M. 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 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978. He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990. He served as Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from  1984 to 1987 and as the President of the California Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1997.
caption: Thomas Everhart in 1987
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