Hyatt M. Gibbs

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Hyatt Mcdonald Gibbs (born August 6, 1938 in Hendersonville , North Carolina , † September 3, 2012 in France ) was an American physicist who dealt with nonlinear optics , semiconductor photonics and laser spectroscopy .

Gibbs graduated from North Carolina State University with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and physical engineering in 1960 and received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1965 . He then worked there for two years as an Acting Assistant Professor before moving to Bell Laboratories in Berkeley Heights ( New Jersey ) from 1967 , where he stayed until 1980. In 1975/76 he was an exchange scientist at the Philips research laboratories in Eindhoven and in 1978/79 he was visiting professor at Princeton University . From 1980 he was professor of optics at the University of Arizona ( Optical Science Center , now College of Optical Sciences ). In 2011 he retired. He died of complications from cancer.

From 1984 to 1991 he was director of the Optical Circuitry Corporation he founded , which dealt with optical data processing. His successor as director was his colleague Nasser Peyghambarian (also a professor at the University of Arizona).

Gibbs is the author of a book on optical bistability (important for optical computers). Most recently, he dealt with nano-optics and his group was the first to show the coupling of cavity quantum electrodynamic modes ( cavity QED mode ) to individual quantum dots . In 1983 he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal and in 1998 the Humboldt Research Award . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was a senior member of the IEEE . In 2012 the asteroid (221628) Hyatt was named after him.

He was married twice. From his first marriage he had a son ( Alex R. Gibbs , after whom the asteroid (14220) Alexgibbs is named) and a daughter. His second marriage was to the physicist Galina Khitrova (professor at the University of Arizona), with whom he also worked.

Fonts

  • Optical bistability: controlling light with light. Academic Press 1985.
  • Editor with Galina Khritova, Nasser Peyghambaria: Nonlinear Photonics . Springer, 1990/2012.
  • Editor with Paul Mandel, Nasser Peyghambarian, S. Desmond Smith: Optical Bistability III . Springer, 1986.

Web links

  • Hyatt M. Gibbs. In: Faculty Directory. College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona(English).;
  • Kristin Waller: In memoriam: Hyatt M. Gibbs. College of Optical Sciences, September 12, 2012 (English).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data based on American Men and Woman of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ^ Hyatt McDonald Gibbs: Total Spin-exchange Cross Sections for Alkali Atoms from Optical Pumping Experiments . 1965 (Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley).
personal data
SURNAME Gibbs, Hyatt M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibbs, Hyatt Mcdonald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hendersonville , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2012
Place of death France