Alan Bicksler Fowler (born October 15, 1928) is an American physicist.[1]

Life and education

He was born in Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1928.[2]

Fowler served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1953.[3]

He earned a BS in 1951, then an MS in 1952 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In 1958, he earned his PhD from Harvard University.[2]

Fowler was married to Kathleen Devlin for 65 years, until her death in 2016, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.[4]

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[5]

Career

He worked as a researcher for Raytheon Technologies, from 1953 to 1956,[2][6] and for IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1958 to 1993, and was a member of the IBM MOS research group.[7]

He is an IBM Fellow Emeritus.[2]

Fowler is named as a co-inventor in nine U.S. Patents.[8]

Fowler was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by the American Physical Society in 1988.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Alan Bicksler Fowler". amacad.org. American Academy of Arts & Science. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alan Fowler". history.aip.org. American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Alan Fowler". ACAP Array of Contemporary American Physicists. American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  4. ↑ "KATHLEEN DEVLIN FOWLER 1928 - 2016". legacy.com. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "60 New Members Elected to Academy of Sciences". The New York Times. May 13, 1990.
  6. ↑ "Alan B. Fowler". royalsociety.org. London, England: The Royal Society. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  7. ↑ Bassett, Ross Knox (2007). To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. JHU Press. p. 285. ISBN 9780801886393. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "Patents by Inventor Alan B. Fowler". patents.justia.com. Justia Patents. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
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