John A. Panitz is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. During his tenure at UNM he was Professor of Physics, Professor of High Technology Materials and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology (in the School of Medicine). Professor Panitz developed the first laboratory
courseware that encouraged both critical thinking and role playing in the structured environment of a cooperative learning group. Before joining UNM Professor Panitz was in the Surface Science Division at
Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque where he patented the ''Field Desorption Spectrometer'' and the ''LiFE Detector''. He is the founder and CEO of
High Field Consultants and the owner and curator of Gallerie Imaginarium.
Professor Panitz developed the original
atom probe
The atom probe was introduced at th14th Field Emission Symposium in 1967by Erwin Wilhelm Müller and J. A. Panitz. It combined a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer having a single particle detection capability and, for the first time, ...
with
Erwin W. Muller and
S. Brooks McLane and
Gerry Fowler. He was a co-discoverer of the field-adsorption phenomenon. He introduced the
10-cm Atom-Probe, the
Imaging Atom-Probe, and several other techniques. The 10-cm Atom Probe has been called the ''progenitor'' of later atom probe instruments including the commercial instruments available today.
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Gallerie Imaginarium
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Living people
American scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)