Career
He is known for various work related to the field of energy and has also been credited as an early pioneer of electron beam lithography, which has become a key mask-making technology for modern microelectronics. In the 1950s, Shoulders worked as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in applied research on microminiature data-processing components and systems and worked with Dudley Allen Buck in making thin-film cryotron integrated circuits. In 1958, he moved to California to work as a Senior Research Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory created by Charles Rosen at Stanford Research Institute (Socially Responsible Investment).
Early in his career at Socially Responsible Investment, Shoulders made the first 12 quadrupole mass spectrometers and then later worked with others such as mouse inventor, Douglas Engelbart and Jerre Noe.
In the 1980s, Shoulders moved to Austin, Texas to work at Jupiter Technologies as Chief Inventor and focusing on electron condensed charge technology (referred to as EV"s) along with Hal Puthoff. In 2000, Shoulders" work related to high energy electron charge clusters was incorporated into a Future Energy Technologies briefing presented to The United States. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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