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Citizenship
  
United States

Role
  
Physicist

Doctoral advisor
  
Ali Javan

Name
  
Michael Feld

Fields
  
Physicist

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Born
  
11 November 1940 (
1940-11-11
)

Institutions
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA

Known for
  
Quantum optics, single atom laser, biomedical optics

Died
  
April 10, 2010, Massachusetts, United States

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael S. Feld (November 11, 1940 – April 10, 2010) was an American physicist, remembered for his work on quantum optics as well as medical applications of lasers.

Biography

Michael S. Feld received his Ph.D. education at MIT under the guidance of laser pioneer Ali Javan. He remained at MIT throughout his career, becoming faculty member in 1968 and, since 1976, director of the MIT George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory. He was well known in the field of quantum optics for his first observation of optical superradiance, experimental demonstrations of cavity-enhanced and cavity-suppressed spontaneous emission and the experimental demonstration of the first single atom laser. In the later part of his career he turned his attention to the field of biomedical optics, where he developed methods for in-tissue spectroscopy and imaging. Feld directed the Laser Biomedical Research Center at MIT, where he worked on fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy to measure in-vivo levels of biomarker molecules and image disease via endoscopy and optical tomography.

Prof. Feld strongly valued a scientific environment without ethnic or cultural prejudice, and many of his co-workers and Ph.D. students were from minority groups. Notably, he was the Ph.D. advisor of astronaut Ronald McNair, who died in the Challenger disaster.

References

Michael Stephen Feld Wikipedia