R. Fabian Pease | |
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Born | Cambridge, England | 24 October 1936
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Relatives | Pease family |
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Discipline | Engineer |
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Institutions | Stanford University |
Roger Fabian Wedgwood Pease (born 24 October 1936) [1] is an engineer and William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering,Emeritus at Stanford University. [2] He is also an emeritus member of the National Academy of Engineering [3] and Fellow of the IEEE. [4] His research includes work in the fields of micro- and nanofabrication,nanostructures, [5] and miniaturization. [6]
Pease was born in Cambridge, [1] the youngest of 6 children of Helen Bowen Wedgwood and Michael Stewart Pease,making him a member of both the Pease and Wedgwood families. He attended Bedales School;after completing schooling,he joined the Royal Air Force in 1955,serving two years and becoming a radar officer. [7] [8] He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 from Trinity College,Cambridge,where he later received Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1964;that year,he moved to the United States. [1]
Pease's Ph.D. was on improving the scanning electron microscope to resolutions below 10 nm . [9]
Pease worked as an assistant professor at University of California,Berkeley from 1964 to 1967, [4] after which he worked at Bell Labs. [9] In 1978 he became a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University,where he held the William Ayer Professorship. [2] In 2009 he retired and was made emeritus. The Pease-Ye professorship at Stanford was named in his honor on its endowment. [10]
Pease is credited as the co-inventor of microchannel cooling for chip stacks. [11]
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