Wayne B. Nottingham

Wayne B. Nottingham (17 April 1899 – 4 December 1964) was a US physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Principal Investigator of the Research Laboratory of Electronics , specialized on electronics, field electron emission, thermionics, photoelectrics and low pressure equipment. The Nottingham effect in field electron emission is named after him.

Life Wayne Buckles Nottingham was born in Tipton, Indiana, United States in 1899.

He made his Bachelor of Science in Purdue University and in 1921 he went to Uppsala University in Sweden under a Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic fellowship by The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Upon his return he joined what later became the Bell Labs in New Jersey. The same year, he was also awarded the degree of electrical engineer by Purdue. and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society (APS) in 1931.

The Wayne B. Nottingham Prize was established in 1966 in Nottingham's honor by the Physical Electronics Conference (PEC), awarded to best papers in electronics during the conference.

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