Ronald Fuchs was an American theoretical physicist and professor at Iowa State University.
10 Facts About Ronald Fuchs
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Ronald Fuchs is recognized for his work on electromagnetic properties of solids, light scattering of small particles and nonlocal optical phenomena.
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Ernest Ronald Fuchs was born in Los Angeles, California in 1932, only child of Swiss-born Ernest Fuchs and Hanna Berta Fuchs.
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In 1961, Ronald Fuchs joined the faculty of the Iowa State University's department of physics and astronomy as an assistant professor.
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Ronald Fuchs was promoted to full professorship in 1974 and became emeritus in 1996.
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Ronald Fuchs took a year-long Overseas Fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 1997.
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Ronald Fuchs passed away in a house in Ames, Iowa, as a consequence of a plasmacytoma.
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Ronald Fuchs worked on the theory of the optical properties and non-local effects of metals and insulators, including thin films, small particles, rough surfaces, and disordered systems.
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Ronald Fuchs worked on surface reflectance spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy of inhomogeneous systems.
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Ronald Fuchs developed the theory of surface modes in ionic crystal cubes exposed to a uniform electric fields.