About Alan Fowler
Lived 1928 – 2024 (aged 95). Alan Fowler was an American physicist.
Alan Bicksler Fowler (October 15, 1928 – August 4, 2024) was an American physicist.
Life and education He was born in Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1928.
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. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fowler died on August 4, 2024, at the age of 95 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career He worked as a researcher for Raytheon Technologies, from 1953 to 1956, and for IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1958 to 1993, and was a member of the IBM MOS research group.
He is an IBM Fellow Emeritus.
Fowler was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by the American Physical Society in 1988.
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American physicist (1928–2024)
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