James F. Scott

James Floyd Scott FRS (born 4 May 1942 in Beverly, New Jersey)^[1] is an American physicist and research director at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University.^[2] He is considered one of the pioneers of ferroelectric memory devices. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2008.^[3]

Biography

Scott attended high school in New Jersey and graduated from Harvard University in 1963. After receiving his doctorate in physics from Ohio State University (1966) in the field of high resolution molecular spectroscopy, he worked for six years in the Quantum Electronics Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. In 1972 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he established a research program investigating ferroelectrics using laser spectroscopy. It was here that began his groundbreaking work on "integrated ferroelectrics" — semiconductor chips that incorporate thin ferroelectric memory devices. In 1984 he co-founded Symetrix Corporation to develop ferroelectric RAM (FRAM), which licensed its technology to Matsushita. There followed appointments as Dean at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1992) and the University of New South Wales (1995). In 1997, worked as a visiting professor in Yokohama thanks to an award from SONY and in Germany after receiving a Humboldt Research Award. Since 1999, when he left Symetrix, he has been professor of ferroics at the University of Cambridge where his research focuses on multiferoed magnetoelectrics and nanometric methods.^[1]

Awards

He was awarded the Materials Research Society gold medal in 2008 and Slovenia's Jožef Stefan gold medal in 2009.^[2] He has been a member of the American Physical Society since 1974, a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2008,^[3] and a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2011.^[2] In 2014 he was listed by Thomson Reuters as among the most highly cited physicists.^[4]

Publications

• Scott, J. F. (2000). Ferroelectric memories. Berlin New York: Springer. ISBN 3-540-66387-8. OCLC 42771666. 

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