Died 17 June 2008 | ||
Gerald J. Dolan (27 March 1945, Philadelphia – 17 June 2008, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) was an American solid state physicist.
Education and career
Dolan received in 1967 his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1973 his Ph.D. from Cornell University under John Silcox. As a postdoc, he was from 1973 to 1976 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) under J. E. Lukens, doing research on thin-film superconductors. From 1976 to 1987 Dolan was at Bell Labs, where he worked under the supervision of Theodore A. Fulton, and then from 1987 to 1989 at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. From 1989 to 1996 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996 he became a consultant in medical physics for Immunicon Corporation. He was briefly a guest researcher at the University of Twente.
Dolan was a pioneer in the development of small tunnel junction circuits for the study of solid-state quantum phenomena and for the observation of individual electrons. In 1987 he developed with Theodore A. Fulton at Bell Laboratories the first single-electron transistor. In the last part of his career he worked on medical applications.
In 2000 he received, with Theodore A. Fulton and Marc A. Kastner, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for "pioneering contributions to single electron effects in mesoscopic systems."