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Features: June 3, 2002
Michael Shur Receives Humboldt Award
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Gary Gold
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Michael Shur, the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts ’48 Chair in Solid State Electronics at Rensselaer, was selected as a recipient of a coveted Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany.
Shur was recognized by the Humboldt Foundation for his accomplishments in research and teaching. He is internationally known for his research in novel semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, including collision-less transport in very small semiconductor devices and wide-band-gap semiconductor devices. He is listed as one of the most quoted researchers in his field.
Shur’s long and successful teaching career began in the mid-1970s. Many of his graduate students have received academic awards, including professional society awards and several Rensselaer awards.
He has had grants and contracts from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, DARPA, Army Research Office, and from companies and government laboratories.
Shur has a doctorate in physics and doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences from the A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1994, the Saint Petersburg State Technical University awarded him an honorary doctorate.
He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society, and a member of the Electron Device Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the Electromagnetic Academy, among others.
As part of his prize, Shur will conduct research in Germany beginning this fall. His wife, Paulina Shur, clinical assistant professor of arts at Rensselaer, will accompany him on the trip. They will meet the German president in a ceremony this July. |
