User:Arthur Uhlir

With a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Tech and a PhD in Physics from the U. of Chicago I started working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ in the Device Development Dept. A number of technical efforts underway lead to the creation of a low noise, variable reactance named "varactor". Other experiments in semiconductor etching yielded what is now recognized as an early example of nanotechnology.

The pressure from several growth companies in New England brought me to Microwave Associates in Burlington, MA. There I worked with a number of skilled associates on projects including antiballistic devices for Raytheon and Bell Telephone Labs in Whippany, NJ. The company name was changed to MACOM. I became a VP and member of the Board of Directors.

Eventually I went to Tufts University to head the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1975 I became the Dean of Engineering and retired in 1981.