Calvin Quate

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Calvin Forrest Quate (born December 7, 1923 in Baker , Nevada - † July 6, 2019 in Menlo Park , California ) was an American engineer .

life and work

Calvin Quate was born to Graham Shepard Quate and Margie, b. Lake born. In 1944 he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah . He then served until 1946 as Lieutenant Junior Grade in the United States Navy Reserve. Then he returned to research and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1950 . From 1949 to 1958 he worked at Bell Laboratories , then until 1961 at Sandia Corporation . In 1961 he went back to Stanford University, where he became a professor of applied physics and electrical engineering. 1969 to 1972 and 1978 to 1981 he headed the faculty for applied physics. From 1984 he was also at Xerox PARC for ten years . In 1986 he became Leland T. Edwards Professor. In 1995 he retired .

He initially worked on acoustic amplifiers, interactions between sound waves and semiconductors, and microwave amplifiers . He invented the scanning acoustic microscope , which surpasses the resolution of light microscopes . This means that opaque and transparent materials can also be examined. In addition, details below the surface can be resolved that are completely inaccessible to light microscopy. When he heard of the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope , he switched his research activities to devote himself entirely to scanning microscopes. With Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber , he invented the atomic force microscope in 1986 .

On June 28, 1945, he married Dorothy Marshall, with whom he had four children, Robin, Claudia, Holly and Rhodalee. This marriage ended in divorce in 1985. In January 1987 he married Arnice Streit, with whom he had three children, Christine, Carol and Richard. His hobbies were skiing, hiking, kayaking and windsurfing.

Publications

  • Stephen C. Minne, Scott R. Manalis, and Calvin F. Quate: Bringing Scanning Probe Microscopy Up to Speed . Kluwer, Boston 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8466-0
  • Hyongsok T. Soh, Kathryn Wilder Guarini, and Calvin F. Quate: Scanning Probe Lithography . Kluwer, Boston 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7361-8
  • Franz J. Giessibl and Calvin F. Quate: Exploring the nanoworld with atomic force microscopy . Physics Today, December 2006, p. 44.

Prices

  • 1981 Morris N. Liebmann Award (IEEE)
  • 1982 Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics
  • 1986 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society's 1986 Achievement Award
  • 1988 IEEE Medal of Honor (IEEE)
  • 1992 National Medal of Science
  • 1995 Scientist of the Year (R&D Magazine)
  • 2000 Joseph F. Keithley Award (American Physical Society)
  • 2000 Third Millennium Award (IEEE)
  • 2002 Ultrasonics Rayleigh Award (IEEE)
  • 2016 Kavli Prize (with Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber )

Memberships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Myers: Calvin F. Quate, inventor of advanced microscopes, dies at 95th Stanford University, July 10, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ G. Binnig, CF Quate and C. Gerber: Atomic force microscope . In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 56, 1986, pp. 930-933
personal data
SURNAME Quate, Calvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quate, Calvin Forrest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Baker , Nevada
DATE OF DEATH 6th July 2019
Place of death Menlo Park , California