Bernard Yurke
Bernard Yurke (born November 28, 1951 in Wittenberg ) is an American physicist who deals with quantum optics and nanotechnology.
Yurke grew up in Boise , Idaho and studied at Boise State College and the University of Texas at Austin , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1975 and his master's degree in 1976. In 1983 he received his PhD from Cornell University with a dissertation on experimental low-temperature physics. He then worked at Bell Laboratories , where he stayed until 2008 and became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He currently holds a research professorship at Boise State University.
He conducted research at Bell Labs in various fields, including low-temperature physics, quantum optics, solid state physics (and a kinetics of phase transitions in.. Liquid crystals , microelectromechanical systems, and biophysics) DNA - nanotechnology .
Bernard Yurke was a theoretician at Bell Labs and part of the team led by Richart E. Slusher , who was the first to generate squeezed light in 1985 , a state of non-classical light in which quantum noise is suppressed (squeezed) in different degrees of freedom, taking into account the uncertainty relation. They were also the first to generate squeezed microwaves at the Bell Lab .
He was also part of a team at Bell Labs that first made nanomachines based on DNA. DNA strands had previously been used as information carriers in nanotechnology, but the group constructed a machine made only of DNA, with two strands of DNA that functioned like tweezers that were closed or opened by a third strand of DNA.
In 2001 he received the Max Born Award for his work in quantum optics.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America .
He mentions collecting fossils as a hobby .
Web links
- Bernard Yurke, Ph.D Biography. In: boisestate.edu. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ RE Slusher, LW Hollberg, B. Yurke, JC Mertz, JF Valley Observation of Squeezed States Generated by Four-Wave Mixing in an Optical Cavity , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 55, 1985, p. 2409
- ↑ Yurke, Turberfield, Mills, Simmel, Neumann A DNA filled molecular machine made of DNA , Nature, Volume 406, 2000, p. 605
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| SURNAME | Yurke, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittenberg |