Esther M. Conwell
Esther Marley Conwell (born May 23, 1922 in New York City , † November 16, 2014 in Rochester ) was an American physicist.
Conwell studied physics at Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1942 and at the University of Rochester with a master's degree in 1945, where she and her supervisor Victor Weisskopf developed a theory about electron conduction in semiconductors (Conwell-Weisskopf theory, which the contributions of Ion impurities for electron scattering), and received his doctorate in 1948 from the University of Chicago with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar .
From 1946 to 1951 she was an instructor at Brooklyn College and she worked as an engineer at Western Electric . In 1951/52 she was at Bell Laboratories with William Bradford Shockley and investigated electron transport in semiconductors at high voltages. From 1952 she was with Sylvania (later GTE Laboratories) and from 1972 with Xerox at the Wilson Research Center. There she investigated electronic transport and optical properties of doped polymers, which were used, for example, in photoreceptors in copiers. In 1981 she became a Research Fellow there and in 1991 Associate Director of the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer at the University of Rochester , where she was also an Adjunct Professor from 1990 (but she was with Xerox until her retirement in 1998).
From 1998 she was Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Rochester. There she studied the movement of electrons through DNA .
She died after being hit by her neighbor's car backing out of the park entrance.
In 1962 she was visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and in 1972 at MIT.
She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society . In 1997 she received the IEEE Edison Medal and in 2010 the National Medal of Science . In 2002 she voted Discover Magazine among the 50 Top Women of Science.
Her son Lewis Rothberg was also a professor of physics at the University of Rochester.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Conwell, Weisskopf, Theory of Impurity Scattering in Semiconductors, Phys. Rev., Vol. 77, 1950, p. 388, abstract
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conwell, Esther M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conwell, Esther Marley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2014 |
| Place of death | Rochester |