Humphrey Maris
Humphrey Maris | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 25, 1939 |
| Died | July 25, 2025 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Website | vivo |
| Notes | |
Humphrey John Maris (April 25, 1939 – July 25, 2025) was a physicist and a professor at Brown University from 1965-2014. He specialized in research on low-temperature physics and ultrafast ultrasonics.[4]
He attended Imperial College London receiving a B.Sc. degree in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1963.[1] He was a postdoctoral fellow at Case Institute of Technology from 1963-1965.[1] In 1965 he became a professor at Brown.[5] In 1991 he was made the George Chase Professor of Natural Science.[5] He led experiments into the nature of the quantum state of the electron.[6] His patent on a method of nondestructive evaluation of semiconductors is widely used.[4] He retired in 2014.[5] He died of complications of Parkinson's Disease in 2025.[3]
Honors and Awards
Maris has received the following honors and awards.[7][5]
- UK Science Research Council Fellowship, 1972
- Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Senior Fellowship, 1982
- Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Award,1989
- Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Senior Fellowship, 2003
- Brown University Award for Technical Innovation and Commercialization, 2005
- Prize for Phonon Physics, (Klemens award) 2007
- Phillip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the physical sciences, 2009
- Fritz London Memorial Award for Low Temperature Physics, 2011
- Brown Technology Innovation Impact Award, 2023
References
- ^ a b c "The 2011 Fritz London Memorial Prize Winners" (PDF). Duke Department of Physics. Duke, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ Gale, Thomson (2004). American Men and Women of Science.
- ^ a b "Humphrey Maris Obituary". EastBayRI. Legacy. Aug 18, 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ a b DeLaCámara, Valerie (May 11, 2023). "Professor Emeritus of Physics and Professor of Physics Humphrey J. Maris Receives Inaugural Brown Technology Innovation Impact Award". Brown Physics. Brown University. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Passages: Professor Humphrey Maris". Brown Physics. Brown University. August 19, 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ Stacey, Kevin (2014-10-28). "Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?". News deom Brown. Brown University. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Humphrey J Maris". Researchers@Brown. Brown University. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
