Phillip J. Stiles

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Phillip John Stiles (born October 31, 1931 in Manchester , Connecticut ) is an American solid-state physicist . He was part of the team that succeeded in detecting a two-dimensional electron gas and its quantum properties in semiconductors in 1966 .

Stiles graduated from Trinity College , Hartford with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1956 and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 . He then continued research at the university and in 1962/63 as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation at the University of Cambridge in England . From 1963 he did research at IBM . In 1970 he became a professor at Brown University , where he headed the physics faculty from 1974 to 1980 and was then Dean of Research until 1986. In 1993 he became a professor at North Carolina State University , where he was Provost and Vice Chancellor from 1993 until his retirement in 1998 .

John Robert Schrieffer predicted quantum effects in electron transport in 1956 due to the two-dimensional geometry in metal-insulator-semiconductor (MOS) structures , but only Stiles, Frank Fang , Alan B. Fowler and Webster Eugene Howard at IBM in 1966 were able to demonstrate this by applying strong magnetic fields . In 1988 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Frank Fang and Alan B. Fowler . In 1981 he received the Wetherill Medal from the Franklin Institute with Fowler, Howard, Fang and Frank Stern . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received a Senior US Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation in 1976, thus doing research at the Technical University of Munich.

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  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004, the University of North Carolina ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. states Rocky Hill, Connecticut, as the place of birth in its retirement press release @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ncsu.edu
  2. ↑ AB Fowler, FF Fang, WE Howard, PJ Stiles: Magneto-Oscillatory Conductance in Silicon Surfaces . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 16 , no. 20 , May 16, 1966, pp. 901-903 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.16.901 .
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SURNAME Stiles, Phillip J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiles, Phillip John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , Connecticut