Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, The Twilight of the Bombs (2010). He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.

Biography

Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1937. Following his mother's suicide on July 25, 1938, Rhodes, along with his older (by a year and a half) brother Stanley, was raised in and around Kansas City, Missouri, by his father, a railroad boilermaker with a third-grade education. When Rhodes was ten, their father remarried a woman who starved, exploited, and abused the children. Stan, age 13, standing 5 foot, 4 inches and weighing an emaciated 98 pounds, saved both boys by walking into a police station and reporting to the authorities the conditions under which they lived. The boys were sent to the Andrew Drumm Institute, an institution for boys founded in 1928 in Independence, Missouri. The admission of the brothers was something of an anomaly as the institution was designed for orphaned or indigent boys and they fit neither category. The Drumm Institute is still in operation today, and now accepts both boys and girls. Rhodes became a member of the board of trustees in 1991. Rhodes wrote about his childhood in A Hole in the World.

Richard Rhodes (police commissioner)

Richard Rhodes is the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria Constabulary. He is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012. He defeated Labour candidate Patrick Leonard.

In April 2013 the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald newspaper ran a story about Richard Rhodes's spending of £700 on a chauffeur for two evening engagements in the Lake District in January and February. Four days after publication, Cumbria police arrested a number of Cumbria police staff over the alleged 'leak'. In October 2013 the Crown Prosecution Service announced that no criminal proceedings would be taken against one of the 'whistleblowers', Mrs Irene Brown.

References

He did pay this money back when it appeared in the press http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/cumbria-police-crime-commissioners-expenses

Richard Rhodes (sculptor)

Richard Rhodes (born 1961) is a Seattle, Washington-based sculptor, stonemason, entrepreneur, and scholar of stonework world-wide.

Life and career

Born in California, Richard studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1981. Through his study of medieval ritual and research, Rhodes apprenticed himself as a stonemason in Siena, Italy, after graduate school. Working with the operative branch of the Freemason’s guild in Siena, Rhodes first encountered the Sacred Geometries and the Sacred Rules of Bondwork as passed through the medieval guild of the Freemasons. Rhodes credits his guild training as a major influence in his sculptural practice.

Rhodes is the founder of several Seattle-based businesses including Design Studio Rhodesworks Design Studio, Rhodes Masonry and Rhodes Architectural Stone.

Sculpture Practice

Rhodes' work explores the line between art and architecture with expressive, site specific work. His earlier work is self-described as "architectonic." His current sculptural work is abstract and figurative, clearly visible in his Sentinel Series (various). His work is textural and often draws on the expressive hand finishes Rhodes' learned during his training and apprenticeship in Italy.