James F. Scott

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James Floyd Scott (born May 4, 1942 in Beverly , New Jersey - † April 6, 2020 ) was an American physicist and head of research at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge . He was considered a pioneer in the field of ferroelectric memory devices .

Career

Scott earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1963 and a PhD from Ohio State University in 1966 . He then worked for six years at the quantum electronics research laboratory at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he mainly dealt with phase transitions and the ferroelectric material . In 1972 he became a full professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder . In 1992 Scott was appointed Dean of Applied Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , and in 1995 Dean of Science and Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney . In 1997 Scott received the Humboldt Research Award and a call to the Sony Corporation Chair of Science in Yokohama , where he continued his work on Ferroelectric Random Access Memories (FRAM). From 1999 he was Professor of Ferroika at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom . Scott received the Monkasho Prize from the University of Tokyo in 2001 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ( MRS Medal ) in 2008 and a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts three years later . As of 2014, Thomson Reuters counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of citations of his work .

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  1. ↑ Obituary ( Slovenian )
personal data
SURNAME Scott, James F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, James Floyd (full name); Scott, JF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverly (New Jersey) , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2020