IBM / Bell / Bell Labs / DOE / Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Alcatel / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Switzerland / Poland / Japan / United States / Canada / United Kingdom / China / Scotland / /
Currency
USD / /
Facility
Princeton University / University of British Columbia / Institute of Low Temperature / University of Illinois / McMaster University / Cornell University / University of Tokyo / Scotland’s University of St. Andrews / American Institute of Physics / University of California / /
IndustryTerm
electron systems / spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy / capital equipment / a lot of infrastructure / synthesis solutions / energy technologies / /
Organization
RIKEN / American Institute of Physics / McMaster University / US Department of Energy / University of Tokyo / Princeton University / National Academy of Sciences / Cornell University / University of Illinois / University of St. Andrews / DOE’s office of Basic Energy Sciences / University of British Columbia / University of California / San Diego / Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research / /
Person
Georg Bednorz / Jim Eisenstein / DAVID A. MULLER / Séamus Davis / Hidenori Takagi / LENA FITTING KOURKOUTIS / Doug Bonn / Klaus von Klitzing / Andy Mackenzie / Horst Stormer / Art Ramirez / Alex Müller / Dale Van Harlingen / Harriet Kung / YASUSHI HOTTA / Brian Maple / HAROLD Y. HWANG / Toni Feder / Graeme Luke / Loren Pfeiffer / ROBERT CAVA / /
Position
materials physicist / department chair / director of materials sciences and engineering / scientist / physicist / leader / director of device physics research / chemist / /
ProvinceOrState
Illinois / British Columbia / California / Ontario / /
PublishedMedium
Physics Today / /
Technology
semiconductor / energy technologies / laser / semiconductors / /
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