Richard J. Thome was born in Buffalo, New York on 17 September 1940. He grew up in Buffalo and graduated from Hutchinson Central Technical High School. Thome continued his education at Syracuse University, earning a B.M.E. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honors society. He has spent his career working in both industry and academia.

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