Dean Eastman

Dean Eric Eastman (born January 21, 1940 in Oxford , Wisconsin , † March 4, 2018 ) was an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager.

Eastman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1962, a master's degree in 1963 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1965. From 1963 he was a scientist at IBM, where he headed the surface physics and photoemission spectroscopy department in the research department from 1971 to 1981 , 1981/82 was the Lithography, Packaging and Compound Semiconductors department and 1983 to 1985 director of the Advanced Packaging Lab. From 1986 to 1994 he was Director of Product Development in the Systems Technology Division, Vice President Logic Memory and Packaging, and Vice President and Director of Development in the Systems Technology Division . From 1994 to 1996 he headed the Hardware Development and Reengineering department at IBM's headquarters. In 1996 he left IBM and became director of the Argonne National Laboratory , which he was until 1998. He was then a professor at the University of Chicago in the James Franck Institute.

In 1972/73 he was visiting professor at MIT. In 1974 he became an IBM Fellow .

In 1980 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1982), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the National Academy of Engineering (1988) and Fellow of the American Physical Society (1981) and of the IEEE .

Web links

• Biography at the AIP
• The University of Chicago announced in 1996 that Eastman became the new head of the Argonne Laboratory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ In memoriam: Dean Eastman. Argonne National Laboratory, April 5, 2018, accessed April 9, 2018 .