Peter A Wolff

Peter A. Wolff began his career with Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1952. Thereafter he joined the physics department of MIT in 1970, becoming head of the condensed matter and atomic physics division. In 1976 he moved on to the directorship of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and then of the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory in 1981. Wolff left the director's chair in 1987 and retired from his faculty position in 1989 to become a fellow of the newly created NEC Research Institute at Princeton University. In 1994 he returned to MIT as the leader of the physics/industry forum for the physics department and remained a professor emeritus there until his death.