Bascom Deaver
Bascom Sine Deaver (born August 16, 1930 in Macon (Georgia) ) is an American physicist and one of the discoverers of river quantization .
Deaver studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and at Washington University in St. Louis with a master's degree in 1954. He was then until 1957 a physicist with the Air Force Special Weapons Command at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and from 1957 to 1962 at the Stanford Research Institute. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1962 with William Fairbank senior . 1963 to 1965 he was a research assistant in low temperature physics at Stanford. In 1965 he became an associate professor and in 1973 professor at the University of Virginia . In 2010 he retired, but remained scientifically active. There he is co-director of the Far Infrared Receiver Laboratory, where new detectors for far infrared are developed (both on semiconductor and superconductor basis).
He began his experiment on river quantization in 1960 at the suggestion of William Fairbank in Stanford. In May 1961 he received clear signs of flux quantization (with correct prefactor a half) and on June 16 they sent their paper to Physical Review Letters. At the same time, Robert Doll and Martin Näbauer discovered flux quantization in a similar experiment (superconducting hollow cylinder). Näbauer lectured on this at the IBM conference on superconductivity in June 1961 in Yorktown Heights, at which William A. Little also announced the results of the Stanford group from Deaver / Fairbank.
He also dealt with the Josephson effect and SQUIDs and superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel connections (SIS).
From 1966 to 1968 he was a Sloan Research Fellow at MIT. He received the George Pegram Award for his teaching in 2000 and is a member of the Virginia Academy of Sciences.
In 1951 he married Barbara Berenthien with whom he has three daughters.
A scholarship at the University of Virginia is named after him.
Fonts
- with William Fairbank: Experimental Evidence for Quantized Flux in Superconducting Cylinders, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 7, 1961, p. 43
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career dates Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Deaver, Bascom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Deaver, Bascom Sine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macon (Georgia) |