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Science & Medicine

Marc Kastner

Who

Marc Kastner · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots

When

1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Where

United States · MIT · Stanford

Biography

Marc Kastner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; single-electron transistors and quantum dots

1945

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics