Calvin Quate

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Calvin Quate
Born
Calvin Forrest Quate

(1923-12-07)December 7, 1923
Sandia National Labs

Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the

Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
.

Education

He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah College of Engineering in 1944, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1950.[1]

Career and research

Quate is known for his work on acoustic and atomic force microscopy. The scanning acoustic microscope, invented with a colleague in 1973, has resolution exceeding optical microscopes, revealing structure in opaque or even transparent materials not visible to optics.

In 1981, Quate read about a new type of microscope able to examine electrically conductive materials. Together with Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber, he developed a related instrument that would work on non-conductive materials, including biological tissue, and the Atomic Force Microscope was born.[2] AFM traces surface contours using a needle to maintain constant pressure against the surface to reveal atomic detail.[3] AFM is the foundation of the $100 million nanotechnology industry. Binnig, Quate and Gerber were rewarded with the Kavli Prize in 2016 for developing the Atomic Force Microscope.

Quate was a member of the

Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5] Quate died on July 6, 2019, at the age of 95.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Calvin Quate". Kavli Prize. June 2, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  2. PMID 10033323
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  3. doi:10.1063/1.2435681
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  4. ^ a b "Calvin F. Quate, 1923 -". IEEE. 1988. Archived from the original on March 28, 2008. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
  5. ^ "Group 2: Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  6. ^ News, Mirage (July 10, 2019). "Calvin F. Quate, inventor of advanced microscopes, dies at 95". Mirage News. Retrieved December 14, 2021. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. S2CID 201616295
    . Retrieved December 14, 2021 – via science.org (Atypon).

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