Peter Michael Rentzepis (born 11 December 1934) is a Greek-born American physical chemist.
[3][4] Rentzepis, who joined Bell Labs in 1963, after two years at General Electric,[5] led the physical and inorganic chemistry research department at Bell between 1973 and 1985, and taught at University of California, Irvine from 1974 to 2014,[3] serving in a presidential chair professorship from 1985.
[3] While at the university, he submitted an application in 1989 and published after patents (US5268862A [6] & US5325324A [7] - Three-dimensional optical memory) approval in 1994.
F30602-97-C-0014 between the United States Air Force (USAF) acting through its Office of Special Research (AFOSR) and The Regents of the University of California.
Rentzepis was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972,[8] and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978.