Jene A. Golovchenko (1946 – November 13, 2018) was an American physicist. He was born in 1946, and received his PhD in physics in 1972, from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

. He completed three sets of postdoctoral studies at

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and spent several years in industry as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at

Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

in Murray Hill, NJ. His initial interests were in

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the sub ...

nuclear physics Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...

, and materials science. He had a broad research career, encompassing research posts at

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in Denmark, and also in industry, at

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, in facilities at

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and

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, and at

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in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a member of the

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, an interdisciplinary, non-profit, basic research institute in

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MA. A prolific writer, he had produced over 200 papers on a diverse range of topics, and collaborated with many other scientists on a very broad range of experimental research. In 1994, work with

Lene Hau Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...

and team produced a device called "the candlestick", designed to produce atoms at large emission rates under high vacuum conditions, whilst retaining a stable operation. This device is still used, based on their original design, in other labs dealing with

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. With Daniel Branton and Haibing Peng he had worked to develop several devices pertaining to the construction of various types of carbon nanotubes. He was most recently Rumford Professor of Physics and

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Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, and led The Harvard Nanopore Group with Professor Daniel Branton. His interests lay in developing advanced methods of physics, materials, and molecular science to achieve very rapid sequencing of the entire

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. Most recently he was involved with the Oxford Nanopore Group as it seeks to develop

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

and other solid state materials to achieve this

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Nanopore publications

* "Graphene as a subnanometre trans-electrode membrane" : S. Garaj, W. Hubbard, A. Reina, J. Kong, D. Branton, J. A. Golovchenko Journal: Nature 467, 190–193, 2010 * "Embedding a carbon nanotube across the diameter of a solid state nanopore" : E. S. Sadki, S. Garaj, D. Vlassarev, J. A. Golovchenko, D. Branton Journal: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, vol. 29, 2011 * "An ice lithography instrument" : Anpan Han, John Chervinsky, Daniel Branton, J. A. Golovchenko Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments - REV SCI INSTR, vol. 82, 2011 * "Origins and Consequences of Velocity Fluctuations during DNA Passage through a Nanopore" : Bo Lu, Fernando Albertorio, David P. Hoogerheide, Jene A. Golovchenko Journal: Biophysical Journal - BIOPHYS J, vol. 101, pp. 70–79, 2011 * "Thermal activation and saturation of ion beam sculpting" : David P. Hoogerheide, H. Bola George, Jene A. Golovchenko, Michael J. Aziz Journal: Journal of Applied Physics - J APPL PHYS, vol. 109, no. 7, pp. 4312–074312, 2011

Earlier publications

* Near Resonant Spatial Images of Confined Bose-Einstein Condensates in the 4-Dee Magnetic Bottle :

Lene Vestergaard Hau Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...

, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu,

Zachary Dutton Zachary John Dutton is an American physicist who has worked on research centred mainly around cold atomic gases, Electromagnetically induced transparency, EIT, low light level nonlinear optics, quantum memories, and coherent optical. Dutton graduate ...

, Michael M. Burns, J. A. Golovchenko Phys. Rev. A 58, R54-R57 (1998). * Cold Atoms and Creation of New States of Matter: Bose-Einstein Condensates, Kapitza States, and '2D Magnetic Hydrogen Atoms :

, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu, Michael M. Burns, J. A. Golovchenko Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions : Invited papers of the 20th International Conference of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICEAC) Vienna, Austria, July 23–29, 1997) F. Aumayr and H.P. Winter, editors (World Scientific, Singapore 1998), pp. 41–50. * Supersymmetry and the Binding of a Magnetic Atom to a Filamentary Current :

, J. A. Golovchenko, and Michael M. Burns Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3138-3140 (1995). * A new atomic beam source: The "candlestick" :

, J. A. Golovchenko, and Michael M. Burns Rev. Sci. Instrum. 65, 3746-3750 (1994) * Bound states of guided matter waves: An atom and a charged wire :

, Michael M. Burns, and J. A. Golovchenko Phys. Rev. A 45, 6468-6478 (1992).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Golovchenko, Jene A. American physicists American nanotechnologists American inventors 1946 births 2018 deaths People associated with CERN Scientists at Bell Labs Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni