Gene Dresselhaus
Gene Frederick Dresselhaus (November 7, 1929, Ancón, Panama – September 29, 2021, California)[1][2] was an American condensed matter physicist. He is known as a pioneer of spintronics and for his 1955 discovery of the eponymous Dresselhaus effect.[3]
Biography
Dresselhaus studied physics at
Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and from 1977 at the Francis Bitter National Magnetic Laboratory of MIT. He was also a professor of physics at MIT.[1]
He did research on carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, electronic energy bands in solids, surface impedance of metals, excitons in insulators, electronic surface states, optical properties of solids, and high-temperature superconductivity.[1]
In 1958 he married the physicist Mildred Dresselhaus (née Spiewak) — for many years the couple extensively collaborated and published their scientific findings. They had a daughter and three sons.[2]
Honors and awards
He was elected in 1966 a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[5]
In 2022 he shared the
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Emmanuel I. Rashba for "pioneering research on spin-orbit coupling in crystals, particularly the foundational discovery of chiral spin-orbit interactions, which continue to enable new developments in spin transport and topological materials."[6] His death in 2021 shortly preceded the announcement of the prize.[2]
Selected publications
Articles
- Dresselhaus, M.S.; Dresselhaus, G. (1981). "Intercalation compounds of graphite". Advances in Physics. 30 (2): 139–326. .
- Saito, R.; Fujita, M.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S. (1992). "Electronic structure of chiral graphene tubules". Applied Physics Letters. 60 (18): 2204–2206. doi:10.1063/1.107080.
- Nakada, Kyoko; Fujita, Mitsutaka; Dresselhaus, Gene; Dresselhaus, Mildred S. (1996). "Edge state in graphene ribbons: Nanometer size effect and edge shape dependence". Physical Review B. 54 (24): 17954–17961. PMID 9985930.
- Rao, A. M.; Richter, E.; Bandow, Shunji; Chase, Bruce; Eklund, P. C.; Williams, K. A.; Fang, S.; Subbaswamy, K. R.; Menon, M.; Thess, A.; Smalley, R. E.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S. (1997). "Diameter-Selective Raman Scattering from Vibrational Modes in Carbon Nanotubes". Science. 275 (5297): 187–191. S2CID 25200479.
- Dresselhaus, M.S.; Dresselhaus, G.; Jorio, A.; Souza Filho, A.G.; Saito, R. (2002). "Raman spectroscopy on isolated single wall carbon nanotubes". Carbon. 40 (12): 2043–2061. .
- Dresselhaus, M.S.; Dresselhaus, G.; Saito, R.; Jorio, A. (2005). "Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes". Physics Reports. 409 (2): 47–99. .
- Pimenta, M. A.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Cançado, L. G.; Jorio, A.; Saito, R.; Saito, R. (2007). "Studying disorder in graphite-based systems by Raman spectroscopy". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 9 (11): 1276–1290. PMID 17347700.
- Malard, L.M.; Pimenta, M.A.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M.S. (2009). "Raman spectroscopy in graphene". Physics Reports. 473 (5–6): 51–87. .
Books
- Dresselhaus, Mildred S.; Dresselhaus, Gene; Sugihara, Ko; Spain, Ian L.; Goldberg, Harris A. (8 March 2013). Graphite Fibers and Filaments. Springer Series in Material Science 5. ISBN 9783642833793. (1st edition 1988)
- Dresselhaus, M. S.; Dresselhaus, G.; Eklund, P. C. (20 March 1996). Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: Their Properties and Applications. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080540771.[7]
- Dresselhaus, Mildred; Dresselhaus, Gene; Avouris, Phaeton, eds. (July 2003). Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications. Springer. ISBN 9783540399476. (1st edition 2001)
- Dresselhaus, Mildred S.; Dresselhaus, Gene; Jorio, Ado (18 December 2007). Group Theory: Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter. Springer. ISBN 9783540328995.
- Jorio, Ado; Dresselhaus, Mildred S.; Saito, Riichiro; Dresselhaus, Gene (24 August 2011). Raman Spectroscopy in Graphene Related Systems. Wiley-VCH. ISBN 9783527643905.
- Dresselhaus, Mildred; Dresselhaus, Gene; Cronin, Stephen; Souza Filho, Antonio Gomez (17 January 2018). Solid State Properties: From Bulk to Nano. Springer. ISBN 9783662559222.
References
- ^ a b c biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ a b c Halpern, Jane (November 9, 2021). "Gene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies at 91". MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1966 and institution=Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory)
- ^ "2022 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient, Gene Dresselhaus". American Physical Society.
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