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Alfred Y. Cho

Chinese electrical engineer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1937 · age 89

Alfred Yi Cho is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. He is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s.

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A life in dates

2015Rumford PrizeAward2009National Inventors Hall of FameAward2005National Medal of Technology and InnovationAward2000Willis E. Lamb AwardAward1995Elliott Cresson MedalAward1994IEEE Medal of HonorAwardVon Hippel AwardAward1993National Medal of ScienceAward1989IRI Achievement AwardAward1983Fellow of the American Physical SocietyAward1982IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial AwardAwardJames C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsAward1937Born10 July 1937

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Awards

Rumford Prize2015
National Inventors Hall of Fame2009
National Medal of Technology and Innovation2005
Willis E. Lamb Award2000
Elliott Cresson Medal1995
IEEE Medal of Honor1994
Von Hippel Award1994
National Medal of Science1993
IRI Achievement Award1989
Fellow of the American Physical Society1983
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award1982
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials1982
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology

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He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at Bell Labs in 1994.

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United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
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Dates
Born 1937 · age 89

The same award as Alfred

Nick HolonyakBoth received Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and TechnologyFederico CapassoBoth received Willis E. Lamb AwardStuart ParkinBoth received James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsMarvin L. CohenBoth received Von Hippel AwardB. Jayant BaligaBoth received IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial AwardConyers HerringBoth received Von Hippel Award