Alan B. Fowler (born October 15, 1928, Denver , Colorado) is an American physicist and specialist in solid state physics . Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering of the United States (both from 1990) [1] [2] , foreign member of the Royal Society of London (2001) [3] , Ph.D. (1958), IBM emerite-fello (since 1993), where he collaborated with 1958 to 1993
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Biography
He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (bachelor, 1951; master, 1952). He served in the US Army. From 1953 to 1956 he worked at Raytheon Research. In 1958, he received a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. From the same 1958 to 1993, an IBM employee, then IBM Emerite Fello. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fell American Physical Society and IEEE. Marked by from the Franklin Institute (1981) [4] , 1987], Oliver Buckley Award from the American Physical Society (1988).