 | A. Douglas Stone |
A. Douglas Stone, who was recently appointed as the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics, is a theoretical physicist with interests in solid-state and optical/laser physics.
Stone is one of the scientists whose work is supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics at Yale. He and five other researchers (including Michel Devoret and Steven Girvin) are working toward the creation of a quantum computer.
Specifically, Stone is interested in theoretical issues relating to physics and electronics on the nanoscale, and in micro-lasers and other optical devices for integrated optics, analyzed using the tools of quantum theory and non-linear dynamics (i.e., chaos theory). He is the author of over 90 research and review articles in these areas and holds three patents for optical devices.
His work on the intrinsic quantum fluctuations in electrical conductance is one of the cornerstones of a new sub-field of solid-state physics known as "mesoscopic physics."
After receiving his B.A. in social studies from Harvard College in 1976, Stone pursued a second "honors" B.A. in physics and philosophy 1976-1978 at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He then decided to focus on theoretical physics and received his Ph.D. in solid-state physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center and was an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In addition to his studies in science, Stone continues to maintain his earlier interest in philosophy, psychology and politics.
Stone came to Yale in 1986 as an associate professor in the Departments of Applied Physics and of Physics, and was named a full professor in 1990. He served as chair of the Department of Applied Physics 1997-2003 and is currently director of the Divisional Committee of the Physical Sciences at Yale, which advises the administration on science-related issues and oversees the tenure process in the physical sciences.
The Yale professor's honors include the McMillan Award of the University of Illinois at Urbana for "outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics" and election as a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has been a trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and is currently a general member; he is also a member of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
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