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William Paul: a scientist, a teacher, and a friend
Author(s) -
Cardona Manuel
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200301576
Subject(s) - sketch , field (mathematics) , sociology , graduate students , library science , psychology , law , computer science , political science , pedagogy , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
The author belongs to the first generation of graduate students Bill Paul supervised at Harvard. He learned from Bill the physics of semiconductors, especially under high pressure, and also how to manage a research group. Last, but not least, he also learned from him the rules of ethics of the scientific endeavor which seem to be often forgotten in recent times. The “Bill Paul Experience” left a permanent imprint on the speaker's future career. After a short biographical sketch, the article discusses the scientific lineage of Bill Paul and presents a bibliometric analysis of his publications. This is followed by a discussion of what the speaker and the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) believe are Bill's most important contributions to Semiconductor Science, in particular the application of high pressure to the investigation of the band structure of semiconductors and the wide field of amorphous materials.