Daniel S. Chemla

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Daniel Simon Chemla (born July 21, 1940 in Tunis , † March 20, 2008 in Kensington , California ) was a French - American physicist .

Chemla studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris and at the University of Paris with a diploma in 1967 and a doctorate in 1972. He then worked at the French national center for telecommunications ( Center National d'Etudes des Télécommunications ), where he started the group in 1974 for nonlinear optics and was in the optoelectronics group from 1976 to 1979. He was also a lecturer at Orsay University. From 1981 he was at Bell Laboratories , where he initiated research on semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices and from 1983 was head of the quantum physics and electronics research department. From 1990 he was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (where he was brought by Charles Shank ), where he was director of the materials science department until 2003, and he was also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1990 . From 1998 to 2005 he also headed the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a synchrotron radiation source . He saved the ALS from imminent closure and built it into a leading synchrotron radiation center. He retired in 2005 after suffering a stroke and other health problems.

In 1988 he received the RW Wood Prize and the 1995 Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE for his fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear optics and electronic to understand suggestions in localized quantum systems .

Chemla was a fellow of the American Physical Society , the IEEE, and the Optical Society of America . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the ENS in Cachan. In 1995 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In the period that followed, young German physicists who had also received such a Humboldt Fellowship were accepted into his working groups several times, for example Rupert Huber . He was a US citizen.

Chemla was also an internationally recognized karate expert who had a black belt (5th Dan ), had students in Europe, Canada and the USA and translated the Japanese textbook Karate-Do Kyohan into French.

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  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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SURNAME Chemla, Daniel S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chemla, Daniel Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2008
Place of death Kensington , California