John R. Kirtley
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| Born | John Robert Kirtley August 27, 1949 Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul K. Hansma |
| Known for | Scanning SQUID microscopy |
| Notable awards | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1998) |
| Spouse | Kathryn Barr Kirtley |
| Children | David Barr Kirtley |
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Website kirtleyscientific |
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John Robert Kirtley (born August 27, 1949) is an American condensed matter physicist and a Consulting Professor at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He shared the 1998 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
He received his BA in Physics in 1971 and his PhD in Physics in 1976, both from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His PhD topic was inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy, with Paul Hansma as his thesis advisor. He was then a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976–1978, working in the group of Donald N. Langenberg on non-equilibrium superconductivity. From 1978 to 2006 he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Since 2006 he has worked at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis winner at the University of Augsburg in Germany, a Jubileum Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and currently holds a Chaire d'Excellence from the NanoSciences Fondation in Grenoble, France.
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