Arthur Gossard

Arthur C. Gossard ( born June 18, 1935 in Ottawa ( Illinois)) is an American solid-state physicist.

Gossard studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1956) and his doctorate in 1960 at the University of California, Berkeley. After that, he was from 1960 to 1987 at Bell Laboratories ( most recently as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff ) where he ( the sure got the Nobel Prize ) in 1981 discovered by Horst Ludwig Störmer and Daniel Chee Tsui the fractional quantum Hall effect ( FQHE ). Since 1987 he is professor of electrical engineering, materials science and computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gossard dealt among other things with molecular beam epitaxy growth of quantum wells, superlattices, magnetic semiconductors and composite (metal / semiconductor ) nanomaterials. He is co-discoverer of " limited quantum Stark effect " ( quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE ).

1962/63 he was at the nuclear research center in Saclay and 1996 he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Erlangen.

In 1984 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Tsui and Störmer. In 2001 he received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials of the American Physical Society. Since 2001 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Writings

• By Tsui, Störmer: Two dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit. Phys. Lett., Bd.48, 1982, p 1559-1562 ( discovery of the FQHE )