Richard J. Gambino
Richard J. Gambino (1935-2014) was a distinguished American material scientist best known for his pioneering work with amorphous magnetic materials.[1]
Gambino received his BA in 1957 from the University of Connecticut, and MS in 1976 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He served from 1956–60 as a Physics Scientist at the US Army Signal Corps Research Lab, a metallurgist from 1960–61 at Pratt & Whitney, and from 1961–1993 as a member of the research staff at IBM Yorktown. In 1993 he became a professor at Stony Brook University.
In 1992, Gambino received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award together with Praveen Chaudhari and , "for the discovery of amorphous magnetic films used in magneto-optic data storage systems". He received the National Medal of Technology in 1995 for the development of amorphous magnetic materials used for magneto-optic disk media.
He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the discovery of magnetic anisotropy, the enabling technology of magneto-optical recording.
He is an IEEE Fellow and holds 40 patents.
References[]
- ^ Sampath, Sanjay; Herman, Herbert (February 2015). "In Memoriam: Richard J. Gambino (1935–2014)". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 51 (2): 2384398. Bibcode:2015ITM....5184398S. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2014.2384398.
- 21st-century American physicists
- Living people
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
- 1935 births