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Published as AuthorRobert L. Willett
Dates
unknown – present
Authorized Form of Name
Willett, Robert L.
Biography
Abstract
Robert Willett is a member of the technical staff at Alcatel-Lucent. His current research interests focus on quantum Hall systems, decoherence in metals, and photonic band gap structures. He was awarded the American Physical Society's Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize in 2002.
Important Dates
1979Obtained SB in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1983Obtained MD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.).
1988Obtained PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1989 – 1996Postdoctoral Member, Technical Staff (1989-1990) and Member, Technical Staff (1990-1996), AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).
1996 – 2007Member, Technical Staff, Bell Labs Innovations (Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill (N.J.).
2002Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society.
2007 – presentMember, Technical Staff, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill (N.J.).
Occupation
Condensed matter physicist.
Places
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Subjects
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Relationships
People
Colleagues
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and Alcatel-Lucent.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.
Institutions
Major Positions
Member, Technical staff.
Postdoctoral Member and Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Received 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Obtained SB (1979) and PhD (1988).
University of California, San Francisco. Department of Physics
Obtained MD (1983).
Resources
Published Resources
Author
Composite fermions : a unified view of the quantum Hall regime / editor, O. Heinonen.