Gerald J. Dolan

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Gerald J. Dolan (27 March 1945, Philadelphia – 17 June 2008, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) was an American solid state physicist.[1][2]

Education and career[]

Dolan received in 1967 his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1973 his Ph.D. from Cornell University under John Silcox. As a postdoc, he was from 1973 to 1976 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) under J. E. Lukens, doing research on thin-film superconductors. From 1976 to 1987 Dolan was at Bell Labs, where he worked under the supervision of , and then from 1987 to 1989 at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. From 1989 to 1996 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996 he became a consultant in medical physics for Immunicon Corporation. He was briefly a guest researcher at the University of Twente.

Dolan was a pioneer in the development of small tunnel junction circuits for the study of solid-state quantum phenomena and for the observation of individual electrons. In 1987 he developed with Theodore A. Fulton at Bell Laboratories the first single-electron transistor.[3] In the last part of his career he worked on medical applications.

In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for development of new techniques for fabricating microstructures and for contributions to our understanding of the physics of these microstructures." [4]

In 2000 he received, with Theodore A. Fulton and Marc A. Kastner, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for "pioneering contributions to single electron effects in mesoscopic systems."[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gerald Dolan". Array of Contemporary American Physicists.
  2. ^ Obituary. Gerald Dolan, Physics Today (Daily Edition)
  3. ^ Fulton, T. A.; Dolan, G. J. (1987). "Observation of single-electron charging effects in small tunnel junctions". Physical Review Letters. 59 (1): 109–112. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59..109F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.109. PMID 10035115.
  4. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Gerald J. Dolan". Division of Condensed Matter Physics. Prizes & Awards.
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