Gerald Dolan

Gerald J. Dolan (born May 27, 1945 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † June 17, 2008 in Huntingdon Valley , Pennsylvania) was an American solid-state physicist .

Life

Dolan studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree cum laude in 1967 and at Cornell University , where he received his doctorate in 1973 with John Silcox . From 1973 to 1976 he was a post-doctoral student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) with J. E. Lukens, where he did research on superconducting thin films, and from 1976 he was at Bell Laboratories , where he initially worked as a post PhD student worked under Theodore A. Fulton . In 1987 he moved to IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . From 1989 to 1996 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania ( Trustee Professor of Physics ). In 1996 he joined Immunicon Corporation as a medical physics consultant. He was also briefly visiting scholar at the University of Twente .

He was a pioneer in the development of small circuits for studying the quantum mechanical behavior of solids up to the observation of the movement of individual electrons. In 1987 he and Theodore A. Fulton developed the first single-electron transistor at Bell Laboratories . Most recently he turned to applications in medicine.

In 2000 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Theodore A. Fulton and Marc A. Kastner for pioneering work on single electron effects in mesoscopic systems .

Web links

• Gerald Dolan. In: Array of Contemporary American Physicists. Retrieved October 15, 2012 (biography from AIP). 
• Gerald J. Dolan. In: Division of Condensed Matter Physics. Prizes & Awards. Retrieved October 15, 2012 (Buckley Prize for Dolan). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ TA Fulton, GJ Dolan: Observation of single-electron charging effects in small tunnel junctions . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 59 , no. 1 , July 6, 1987, p. 109–112 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.59.109 .