Jene Golovchenko

Who is this?

Jene A. Golovchenko (1946 – November 13, 2018) was an American physicist. He was born in 1946, and received his PhD in physics in 1972, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He completed three sets of postdoctoral studies at Aarhus University and spent several years in industry as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. His initial interests were in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and materials science. He had a broad research career, encompassing research posts at Harvard University, Aarhus University in Denmark, and also in industry, at Bell Labs, in facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a member of the Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary, non-profit, basic research institute in Cambridge MA. A prolific writer, he had produced over 200 papers on a diverse range of topics, and collaborated with many other scientists on a very broad range of experimental research. In 1994, work with Lene Hau and team produced a device called "the candlestick", designed to produce atoms at large emission rates under high vacuum conditions, whilst retaining a stable operation. This device is still used, based on their original design, in other labs dealing with low temperature physics. With Daniel Branton and Haibing Peng he had worked to develop several devices pertaining to the construction of various types of carbon nanotubes. He was most recently Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon Mckay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, and led The Harvard Nanopore Group with Professor Daniel Branton. His interests lay in developing advanced methods of physics, materials, and molecular science to achieve very rapid sequencing of the entire human genome. Most recently he was involved with the Oxford Nanopore Group as it seeks to develop graphene and other solid state materials to achieve this whole genome sequencing. He died on November 13, 2018.

Career

1. 1946
   Born
2. 2018
   Passed away

Trivia

• •Place of birth: The Bronx
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physicist