Bernard S. Meyerson (born June 2, 1954) is an American solid state physicist.

Biography

Meyerson is a native of

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, born on June 2, 1954. After graduating from the

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, he completed a master's degree and doctorate at the

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, and began working for IBM. Meyerson was elected a fellow of the

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in 1998, "for the invention of ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition and its application to low temperature silicon epitaxy, especially the fabrication of SiGe heterojunction bipolar integrated circuits for wireless telecommunications." The APS awarded him the

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in 2011. Meyerson received the J. J. Ebers Award in 2000 from the

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. In 2002, Meyerson became an elected member of the

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References

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