Murray Sargent

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Murray Sargent III (born August 18, 1941 in New York City ) is an American physicist who deals with laser physics and software technology.

life and work

Sargent studied at Yale University , where he received his master’s degree in 1964 and his PhD in theoretical physics under Willis Lamb in 1967 . As a post-doctoral student , he was at Bell Laboratories from 1967 to 1969 . From 1969 he was at the University of Arizona (at the invitation of Marlan Scully ), from 1969 as an assistant professor (in the computer science faculty), from 1972 as an associate professor and from 1977 as a professor of optics. In 2002 he retired. In the summer months 1981 to 1991 he was a regular visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (where Scully was also) and from 1975/76 he was visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. He was also a consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1978 to 1982 and from 1977 to 1979 at the White Sands missile test site of the US Army.

In addition to laser physics, he became interested in computers from an early age, for example as a student at PerkinElmer he worked on analog computer simulations of servomechanisms and automated the control of his house with microprocessors at the end of the 1970s . In addition to his work as a laser physicist, he is known for his involvement in Windows development. Sargent was first at Microsoft in 1987 for the summer months , where he became aware of his development of a debugger ( SST Debugger ). In 1988 he became a consultant at Microsoft and (initially without the knowledge of Microsoft's top management) set out with David Weise to get Windows 2.0 running in Protected Mode , which broke through the RAM barrier of the graphical user interface at the time (but at the same time as Priority considered OS / 2 project with IBM endangered - and finally made obsolete).

He has been a Senior Software Design Engineer at Microsoft since 1992 . Later he mainly deals with word processors (text display and mathematical functions in Microsoft Office , Unicode development). He had developed his first word processor , PS Technical Word Processor , before he joined Microsoft in order to use it for his own books. In 1969, while at Bell Labs, he was already developing a programming language to write mathematical formulas. He has been on the Unicode Technical Committee since 1995.

Sargent is the co-author of several books on laser physics and computer technology.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America , whose Journal of the Optical Society of America he co-edited since 1980. In 1975/76 he received the Humboldt Research Award .

Fonts

  • with Marlan O. Scully, Willis Lamb: Laser Physics , Westview Press 1978
  • with Richard Shoemaker: Interfacing computers to the real world , Addison-Wesley 1981, new edition as IBM Personal Computer from the inside out , Addison-Wesley 1986, Personal Computer from the inside out: the programmer's guide to low-level PC hardware and software , Addison-Wesley 1995
  • with Weng W. Chow, Stephan W. Koch: Semiconductor Laser Physics , Springer 1994, 1997
  • with Pierre Meystre : Elements of quantum optics , Springer 1990, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edstrom, Eller Barbarians led by Bill Gates , mitp 1998, p. 95. He developed his scroll screen tracer (SST) debugger at his company Scroll Systems, of which he was president since 1980.
  2. ↑ Steve Ballmer then offered him subscription rights to 25,000 shares that would later have made him a multiple millionaire, Sargent refused, but sold his debugger to Microsoft
  3. ↑ At times, Windows had already been given up at Microsoft
  4. ↑ Scroll, string and character recording oriented logogrammatic language, published 1970. It was even the first such language for graphical display of mathematical formulas. Short biography of Sargent at the Unicode Conference IUC 29, 2006, accessed on October 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Still active since 1995 and 2018: Short biography of M. Sargent (IUC 22). 2002, accessed October 18, 2018 . and Minutes of UTC Meeting July 156 , 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sargent, Murray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sargent, Murray III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City