Thomas Kent

Education

University of Houston, Houston, Texas B.S. 1974 Physics

Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania Ph.D. 1979 Physics

• 2007 - present  President, Science Engineering & Education Co., Edina, MN, USA
• 1991- 2007 President, WEB Research Co.
  SEE Co. (formerly named WEB Research Co.) manufactures and markets Mössbauer spectrometers (Resonant Gamma-ray Spectrometers) and customized data analysis software.  Customers include industrial and academic laboratories around the world. SEE Co also imports and sells Ritverc, GmbH, Mössbauer gamma-ray sources.  Dr. Kent is the sole owner, President and Radiation Safety Officer of SEE Co.
• 1990-91 Director of Mössbauer Studies, Chemistry Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Responsible for installation and operation of new Mössbauer Spectroscopy lab as well as training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Supervisor: Prof. Eckard Munck.
• 1987-89 Independent Consultant
  Contracts included:
  Rosemount, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Analyzed performance of an optical pyrometer used for jet turbine blade temperature measurements. Provided computer model of same.
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Developed code on Cray 2 super computer to optimize the wave forms of RF pulses used in medical applications of surface-coil magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging.
• 1982-86 Research Associate, Gray Freshwater Biological Institute, University of Minnesota
• 1979-82 Postdoctoral Fellow, Gray Freshwater Biological Institute, University of Minnesota
  Applied Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance to the study of metalloproteins and synthetic analogs. Was co-author of 35 publications describing the electronic state and molecular structure of several novel metal centers.
• 1975-79 Research Assistant, Physics Dept., Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, Pennsylvania
  Advisor: Prof. George Lang
  Dissertation: "High Magnetic Field Mössbauer Studies of Deoxymyoglobin, Deoxyhemoglobin, and Synthetic Analogues"

• June 14 -16, 1999 Advanced Radiation Safety Officer Training Course at Radiation Safety & Control Services, Inc., Stratham, New Hampshire, USA.