Robert Meservey
Robert Meservey (born April 21, 1921 in Hanover , New Hampshire , † June 18, 2013 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American physicist who studied solid-state physics.
Career
Meservey studied at Dartmouth College (Bachelor 1943), was then from 1945 to 1955 as a physicist in the Engineering and Research Development Laboratory of the US Army (interrupted from a phase 1946 to 1951 when he worked as a freelance architectural photographer), where he worked on infrared vision devices , and from 1955 to 1960 as a consultant to PerkinElmer and received his PhD from Yale University in 1961 (with a thesis on experiments with liquid helium). He then worked at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1963 at the Francis Bitter Magnetic Laboratory at MIT, where he became a senior scientist and group leader. In 1994 he retired and was then a visiting scientist at the laboratory.
In 2009, he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for their pioneering work in spintronics with Jagadeesh Moodera , Paul Tedrow (both also at MIT) and Terunobu Miyazaki . He and Tedrow investigated tunnels between superconductors under the influence of magnetic fields, which also led to the discovery of spin-polarized tunneling of electrons in 1970.
He was a fellow of the American Physical Society .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meservey, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover , New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 2013 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |