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Alan Bicksler Fowler (born October 15, 1928) is an American physicist. [1]
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Alan Bicksler Fowler (born October 15, 1928) is an American physicist. [1]
He was born in Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1928. [2]
Fowler served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1953. [3]
He earned a BS in 1951, then an MS in 1952 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In 1958, he earned his PhD from Harvard University. [2]
Fowler was married to Kathleen Devlin for 65 years, until her death in 2016, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. [4]
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. [5]
He worked as a researcher for Raytheon Technologies, from 1953 to 1956, [2] [6] and for IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1958 to 1993, and was a member of the IBM MOS research group. [7]
He is an IBM Fellow Emeritus. [2]
Fowler is named as a co-inventor in nine U.S. Patents. [8]
Fowler was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by the American Physical Society in 1988. [2]
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