Background
Quate, Calvin Forrest was born on December 7, 1923 in Baker, Nevada, United States. Son of Graham Shepard and Margie (Lake) Quate.
Quate, Calvin Forrest was born on December 7, 1923 in Baker, Nevada, United States. Son of Graham Shepard and Margie (Lake) Quate.
He earned his bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah College of Engineering in 1944, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1950.
He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Quate is known as the brilliant mind behind acoustic and atomic force microscopy.
The scanning acoustic microscope, invented with a colleague in 1973, has resolution exceeding optical microscopes, revealing structure in opaque or even transparent materials not visible to optics.
In 1985, Quate read about a new type of microscope able to examine electrically conductive materials. He dreamed up a related instrument that would work on non-conductive materials, including biological tissue, and the Atomic Force Microscope was born.
AFM traces surface contours using a needle to maintain constant pressure against the surface to reveal atomic detail. AFM is the foundation of the $100 million nanotechnology industry.
Quate became a Senior Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto Research Center) in 1984.
Fellow: World Technology Network (co-recipient, World Technical award for Information Technology Hardware 2006), American Physical Society (Joseph F. Keithley award for Advances in Measurement Science 2000), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Acoustical Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Morris N. Liebmann award 1981, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers medal of honor 1988, Third Millennium award 2000, Ultrasonics Rayleigh award 2002), Royal Microscop. Society (honorary); member: Royal Society London (foreign) (Rank prize for Opto-electronics 1982), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi.
Married Dorothy Marshall, June 28, 1945 (divorced 1985). Children: Robin, Claudia, Holly, Rhodalee. Married Arnice Streit, January 1987.
Children: Christine, Carol, Richard.