Harold Norman Spector (1935 - 2017)
Education
- 1955
- B.S., Physics, University of Chicago
- 1956
- M.S., Physics, University of Chicago
- 1961
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago - Magneto-acoustic
effects in tilted magnetic fields
Positions
- Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Institute of Technology
- Physicist, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute
- 1967 - 1976
- Associate Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
- 1976 - 2001
- Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Biography
Harold Spector was born on February 26, 1935 and died at the age of 82 on
July 2, 2017. He lived the majority of his life in Chicago, Illinois.
Spector received his B.S. (1955), M.S. (1956), and Ph.D. (1961) from the
University of Chicago and joined Illinois Institute of Technology in 1967 as
an Associate Professor of Physics after spending several years at Case
Institute of Technology and then Illinois Institute of Technology, Research
Institute. He was promoted to Professor in 1976 and retired in 2001.
Spector's research centered on the theoretical calculation of the optical
and electronic properties of electrons confined in semiconducting structures
of reduced dimensionality such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum
dots. He supervised 3 Ph.D. students at IIT.
Notable Publications
- "Hydrogen impurities in quantum well wires",
J.W. Brown and H.N. Spector, J. Appl. Phys. 59,
1179 (1986);
DOI.
- "Exciton binding energy in a quantum-well wire", J.W. Brown and H.N.
Spector, Phys. Rev. B 35, 3009 (1987);
DOI.
- "Amplification of acoustic waves through interaction with conduction
electrons" H.N. Spector, Phys. Rev. 127, 1084 (1962);
DOI.
- "Impurity-limited mobility of semiconducting thin wire", J. Lee and
H.N. Spector, J. Appl. Phys. 54, 3921 (1983);
DOI.