Alan Fowler

Alan B. Fowler (* October 15, 1928 in Denver, Colorado) is an American solid-state physicist. He was part of the team, which in 1966 succeeded in showing a two-dimensional electron gas and its quantum properties in semiconductors.

Fowler made ​​from 1946 to 1948 and 1952/53, military service in the U.S. Army, where he worked at the Laboratory of the Signal Corps at Camp Evans, New Jersey. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor 's degree in 1951 and master's degree in 1952. Afterwards he studied from 1953 at Raytheon ( while he worked on his doctorate at Harvard ) and from 1958 for IBM. In 1958 he received his doctorate at Harvard University in Applied Physics. He was IBM Fellow, IBM had several management positions and was officially in 1993 at IBM in retirement ( Emeritus status).

John Robert Schrieffer had predicted 1956 Quantum effects in electron transport due to the two-dimensional geometry in metal - insulator-semiconductor structures (MOS ), but the evidence was not until Fowler, Frank Fang, Phillip J. Stiles and Webster Eugene Howard ( born 1934 ), IBM 1966 by applying strong magnetic fields.

In 1988 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Frank Fang and Phillip J. Stiles. In 1981 he received the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute with Fang, Howard, Stiles and Frank Stern. In 1990 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Society. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.