Background
Wolf, Edward Dean was born on May 30, 1935 in Quinter, Kansas, United States. Son of Ezra Lawrence and Zora Blanche (Jamison) Wolf.
Electrical engineering educator
Wolf, Edward Dean was born on May 30, 1935 in Quinter, Kansas, United States. Son of Ezra Lawrence and Zora Blanche (Jamison) Wolf.
Student, Kansas State University, 1953; Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, McPherson College, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1961; postgraduate, Princeton University, 1961-1962; postgraduate, University of California-Berkeley, 1968.
Member technical staff, Rockwell International Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California, 1963-1965;
member technical staff, senior member technical staff, Hughes Research laboratories, Malibu, California, 1965-1967, 67-72;
section head, Hughes Research laboratories, Malibu, California, 1972-1978;
senior scientist, Hughes Research laboratories, Malibu, California, 1974-1978;
director, National Nanofabrication Facility, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1978-1988;
professor electrical engineering, National Nanofabrication Facility, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1978-1990;
professor emeritus, National Nanofabrication Facility, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1991;
director Office Technology Access and Business Assistance, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1995-1996;
co-owner, president, Biolistics, Inc., 1986-1989. Consultant Department Defense, 1978, 81-82, various industrial companies, since 1978. Member university.adv. committee Semiconductor Research Corporation, Research Triangle, North Carolina, 1982-1984, ad hoc committee NAS, 1977-1979, steerinc committee European Microcircuits Engineering Conference, 1976-1978.
Guest professor Technology U., Vienna, 1987. Visiting fellowTrinity College, Cambridge (England) University, 1986-1987. Foreign fellow Erwin Schrodinger Society, Vienna, 1987.
Board directors Phyton, Inc., Cornell Research Foundation.
Fellow American Institute Chemists, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member Bohmische Physical Society (science medical ), American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society, Electron Microscopy Society of America, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon.
Married Marlene Kay Simpson, August 12, 1955. Children: Julie Christine, LaFollette Cynthia, Shelly Diane.