Humphrey Maris
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Humphrey Maris | |
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| Born | April 25, 1939 Ipswich, England |
| Died | July 28, 2025 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Website | vivo |
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Humphrey John Maris (April 25, 1939 – July 28, 2025) was a physicist and a professor at Brown University from 1965 to 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 to 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]
