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Calvin Quate | |
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Born | Calvin Forrest Quate December 7, 1923 Baker, Nevada, U.S. |
Died | July 6, 2019 Menlo Park, California, U.S. | (aged 95)
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Awards | IEEE Medal of Honor (1988) National Medal of Science (1992) Kavli Prize (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | PARC Sandia National Labs |
Thesis | Traveling wave tubes as low noise amplifiers (1950) |
Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.