Richard A. Webb
Richard A. Webb (born September 10, 1946 in Los Angeles , California - † January 23, 2016 ) was an American solid-state physicist .
Webb studied at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a master's degree in 1970 and a doctorate in 1973. He then stayed for two years as a post-doctoral student at UCSD, from 1975 to 1978 at Argonne National Laboratory and from 1978 physicist at IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . From 1993 he was professor at the University of Maryland in the center for superconductor research and since 2004 professor at the University of South Carolina (NanoCenter, John Palms Bicentennial Chair).
More recently he has dealt with spintronics and magnetoresistive effects , the investigation of decoherence and high-frequency properties in mesoscopic systems and the development of quantum computer techniques with coupled electron spins.
In 1982 he received an IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for observing macroscopic quantum tunneling in Josephson junctions and also in 1987 (for observing the Aharonov-Bohm effect in disordered metal wires and metal rings) and 1984 (for observing one-dimensional Mott variable range hopping in Silicon MOSFETs ).
In 1985 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1992 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 1996 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1998 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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| SURNAME | Webb, Richard A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American solid-state physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 2016 |