Randall M. Feenstra

This article is about the physicist. For the politician, see Randy Feenstra.

Randall M. Feenstra is a Canadian physicist. He completed a bachelor's degree in engineering physics at the University of British Columbia in 1978, followed by his master's and doctorate in applied physics at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2] From 1982 to 1995 he was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.[3] Since 1995, he has taught at Carnegie Mellon University,[1] where he conducts research in semiconductors.[4]

Feenstra is a fellow of the American Vacuum Society, and was the 1989 recipient of its Peter Mark Memorial Award.[2] He was elected to fellowship of the American Physical Society in 1997, "[f]or contributions to the development of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope as a spectroscopic tool to probe semiconductor surfaces and surface phenomena,"[5] and was awarded the APS Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics in 2019, "[f]or pioneering developments of the techniques and concepts of spectroscopic scanning tunneling microscopy."[1][6]

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  3. ^ Schwarzschild, Bertram (1987). "Physics Nobel Prize Awarded for Microscopies Old and New". Physics Today. 40 (1): 17–21. Bibcode:1987PhT....40a..17S. doi:10.1063/1.2815291.
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  5. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics: Recipient Randall Feenstra Carnegie Mellon University". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.