George D. Watkins
George Daniels Watkins (born April 28, 1924 in Evanston , Illinois ) is an American solid-state physicist.
Watkins studied physics at Randolph-Macon College ( bachelor's degree in 1943) and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1952. From 1952 to 1975 he did research at General Electric . During this time he also had part-time professorships (adjunct professor), once at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1965 and at the State University of New York in Albany from 1969 to 1973 . From 1975 he was Sherman Fairchild Professor of Physics at Lehigh University , where he retired in 1996 .
He dealt in particular with defects in semiconductors (also as a result of radiation) and researched them, among other things, with magnetic resonance techniques ( electron spin resonance (EPR or ESR), ENDOR ).
In 1966/67 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford (Clarendon Laboratory) as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation and in 1983/84 at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart as a US Senior Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 1990/91 he was visiting professor at Lund University .
In 1978 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 1988 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1999 he received the silver medal of the ESR / EPR Society for Physics and Materials Science.
He has been married since 1949 and has three children.
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- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watkins, George D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Watkins, George Daniels |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Evanston , Illinois |