Arthur Gossard

Arthur Charles Gossard (born June 18, 1935 in Ottawa (Illinois) ) is an American solid-state physicist.

Gossard studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1956) and received his doctorate in 1960 from the University of California, Berkeley . He then worked at Bell Laboratories from 1960 to 1987 (most recently as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff ), where he and Horst Ludwig Störmer and Daniel Chee Tsui (who received the Nobel Prize for this ) discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in 1981 . Since 1987 he has been Professor of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, and Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He has been Professor Emeritus and Research Professor since 2015.

Gossard dealt with molecular beam epitaxy , growth of quantum wells , superlattices, magnetic semiconductors and composite (metal / semiconductor) nanomaterials. He is a co-discoverer of the “restricted quantum Stark Effect ” (quantum confined Stark Effect, QCSE).

In 1962/63 he was at the nuclear research center in Saclay and in 1996 he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Erlangen .

In 1984 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Tsui and Störmer . In 1987 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering . In 2001 he received the American Physical Society's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials . In 1974 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001 . In 2006 he received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2016 the National Medal of Technology and Innovation .

Due to the number of his citations, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ) since 2018 .

Fonts

• with Tsui, Störmer: Two dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit . Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 48, 1982, pp. 1559-1562 (discovery of the FQHE)

Web links

• Homepage. In: Institute for Energy Efficiency, UCSB. (English). 
• Homepage. In: Materials Department, UCSB. (English). 
• AC Gossard. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Arthur C. Gossard. Retrieved November 14, 2018 . 
2. ^ Arthur C. Gossard. In: Member Directory, National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Arthur Gossard. In: Laureates, National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Retrieved November 14, 2018 . 
4. ^ Clarivate Analytics Reveals Annual Forecast of Future Nobel Prize Recipients. In: clarivate.com. Clarivate Analytics, September 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 .