Calvin Quate
Calvin Quate Forrest ( born December 7, 1923 in Baker, Nevada ) is an American engineer.
Life and work
Calvin Quate was born the son of Graham Shepard Quate and Margie, born Lake. In 1944, he received his bachelors degree in electrical engineering at the University of Utah. Subsequently he served until 1946 as a Lieutenant Junior Grade of the United States Navy Reserve. Then he went back to the research and in 1950 received his doctorate at Stanford University. From 1949 to 1958 he worked at Bell Laboratories, then until 1961 at the Sandia Corporation. In 1961 he went back to Stanford University, where he was professor of applied physics and electrical engineering. 1969 to 1972 and 1978 to 1981, he stood in front of the Faculty of Applied Physics. From 1984 he spent ten years in addition at Xerox PARC. In 1986 he was Leland T. Edwards Professor. In 1995 he became Professor Emeritus.
He initially worked on acoustic amplifier, interaction of sound waves and semiconductors and microwave amplifiers. He invented the scanning acoustic microscope which exceeds the resolution of light microscopes. Therefore opaque and transparent materials can be examined. Further details can be dissolved below the surface which are entirely inaccessible to light microscopy. When he heard of the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, he presented his research activities in order to devote himself entirely to scanning microscopes. With Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber, he invented the atomic force microscope in 1986.
On June 28, 1945, he married Dorothy Marshall, with whom he has four children, Robin, Claudia, Holly and Rhodalee. This marriage ended in divorce in 1985. In January 1987, he married Arnice dispute, with whom he has three children, Christine, Carol and Richard. His hobbies include skiing, hiking, kayaking and windsurfing.
Publications
- Stephen C. Minne, R. Scott Calvin F. Quate and Manali: Bringing Scanning Probe Microscopy Up to Speed . Kluwer, Boston 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8466-0
- Hyongsok T. Soh, Kathryn Wilder Guarini and Calvin F. Quate: Scanning Probe Lithography. Kluwer, Boston 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7361-8
- Franz J. Calvin F. Quate and Giessibl: Exploring the nanoworld with atomic force microscopy. Physics Today, December 2006, p. 44