Markus Büttiker
Markus Büttiker (born July 18, 1950 in Wolfwil , Canton Solothurn ; † October 4, 2013 in Collonge-Bellerive , Canton Geneva ) was a Swiss physicist .
In 1974 Büttiker received his diploma in theoretical physics from the ETH Zurich . In 1978 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel . Then he worked for a year as assistant to H. Thomas at the physical institute at the University of Basel. He was then a post-doctoral student at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center until 1981 and worked together with Rolf Landauer . From 1981 to 1994 he was a research assistant in the research department there. In 1987, together with Yoseph Imry , Rolf Landauer and Alfred Douglas Stone, he received the IBM Prize for outstanding technical achievements for predicting the Aharonov-Bohm effect in small (normal) conductors, two years later the same prize “for the multi-terminal formulation of the Quantum Hall effect and the prediction of simultaneously quantized longitudinal resistances and Hall resistances ". In 1990 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Since 1994 he has been professor of theoretical physics at the University of Geneva , and since 1998 director of the department for theoretical physics there.
Büttiker made important contributions to mesoscopic semiconductor physics . The Landauer-Büttiker theory is named after Rolf Landauer and him.
Works
- Dynamical aspects in voltage-controlled current instabilities . Dissertation, Basel 1978
- more than 200 publications in scientific journals
Web links
- Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Alberto Morpurgo: Markus Buettiker . In: Physics Today . December 5, 2013, doi : 10.1063 / PT.5.6023 (English, obituary).
- Homepage at the University of Geneva. Archived from the original on November 1, 2005 .
- Entry on isiknowledge.com ( Memento from October 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. aps.org, accessed on October 9, 2018 ( For developing formulate of conductance and Hall effect using transmittive properties of samples with more than two connections. ).
- ↑ Original articles: Rolf Landauer, in: IBM journal of research and development . 1957, Vol. 1, p. 223; Rolf Landauer, in: Physical Letters . Volume 85A, 1981, p. 91; Bertrand Halperin , in: Physical Review B . Volume 25, 1982, p. 2185; Markus Büttiker, in: Physical Review Letters . Volume 57, 1986, p. 1761.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büttiker, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfwil , Canton of Solothurn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 2013 |
| Place of death | Collonge-Bellerive , Canton of Geneva |