Arthur C. Gossard
Citation: For outstanding contributions and leadership to the materials science of
epitaxial crystal growth and to the physics of electronic structure and devices.
Biography: Arthur Gossard is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He
graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1956 with a B.A. and earned
a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960, both in physics. Prior
to joining the University of California in 1987, Prof. Gossard was a distinguished
member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories 1960–1987.
Among his many honors, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
2001,named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 2001,
and received the American Physical Society McGroddy Prize for New Materials in
2001. |