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Authorised form of nameFowler; Alan Bicksler (1928-2024); solid state physicist
Dates1928-2024
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthDenver, Colorado, United States of America
Date of birth15 Octber 1928
Place of deathPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date of death4 August 2024
OccupationSolid state physicist
Research fieldSolid state physics
Semiconductors
Materials Science
Engineering
Physics
ActivityEducation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA BS 1951; MS 1952; Harvard University PhD 1958
Career:
Served in the US Army (1946-1948 and 1952-153); joined Raytheon Research (1953-1956); moved to IBM Research (1958-1993); retired (1993); Emeritus IBM Fellow, TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA.
Memberships:
US National Academy of Sciences
US National Academy of Engineering
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society (APS)
IEEE
Awards:
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society 1988
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election10/05/2001
Age at election73
RelationshipsSpouse: Kathleen Devlin (d. 2016)
OtherInfoOne of the most significant areas of condensed matter physics for 30 years has been the study of the electronic properties of low dimensional semiconductor systems. This has given rise to such advances as the Quantum Hall Effect and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, low dimensional localisation and interaction effects, one dimensional transport, quantum dots and a host of related topics as well as devices based on low dimensional transport. The pioneering research of Alan Fowler laid down the foundations of low dimensional physics and has contributed vastly to this entire body of work.
Named as a co-inventor in nine U.S. Patents.
SourceThe Royal Society Fellows Directory, Dr Alan Fowler ForMemRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/alan-fowler-11453/; last accessed: 03/09/2025]
American Institute of Physics, Physics History Network, Alan Fowler, [URL: https://history.aip.org/phn/11509025.html; last accessed: 03/09/2025]
CodeNA6905
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/2001/46Fowler, Alan Bicksler: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001522Fowler, Alan Bicksler2001
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