Marc Kastner
Marc Kastner · Science & Medicine
Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots
1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
United States · MIT · Stanford
Marc Kastner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots
Marc A. Kastner is a condensed-matter physicist whose group at MIT demonstrated the single-electron transistor in 1990 and coined the idea of the 'artificial atom' or quantum dot, whose energy levels can be tuned one electron at a time. He later chaired MIT's physics department and served as dean of science, and led the Science Philanthropy Alliance. Public biographies do not detail his religious or ethnic background; he is listed among Jewish physicists by the source directory rather than from a stated identity.
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Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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