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Leroy Chang

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Experimental physicist and solid state electronics researcher and engineer

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Leroy Li-Gong Chang was a Taiwanese-American solid-state physicist. Born in China, he studied in Taiwan and then the United States, obtaining his doctorate from Stanford University in 1963. As a research physicist, he studied semiconductors for nearly 30 years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York.

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1993Stuart Ballantine Medal
1990IEEE David Sarnoff Award
1985James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Fellow of the American Physical Society
IEEE Fellow

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Leroy Li-Gong Chang was a Taiwanese-American solid-state physicist. Born in China, he studied in Taiwan and then the United States, obtaining his doctorate from Stanford University in 1963. As a research physicist, he studied semiconductors for nearly 30 years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. This period included pioneering work on superlattice heterostructures with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leo Esaki.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2008 · aged 72
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