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Spear, W. E. (Walter E.), 1921-2008

LC control no.n 78011894
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Personal name headingSpear, W. E. (Walter E.), 1921-2008
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Variant(s)Spear, Walter E., 1921-2008
Associated countryGermany Great Britain England Scotland
LocatedDundee, Scotland
Birth date1921
Death date2008-02-21
Place of birthGermany
Place of deathDundee, Scotland
Field of activityPhysics Semiconductors
AffiliationUniversity of Dundee. Carnegie Laboratory of Physics
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Physicists
Found inInternational Conference on Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors, 7th, Edinburgh, Scot., 1977. Amorphous ... 1977 (a.e.) t.p. (W. E. Spear, Univ. of Dundee)
GB 78-00895 (body of entry: W. E. Spear)
University of Dundee website, 2 August 2013: Press releases 2008 page (Professor Walter Spear FRS, FRSE, pioneer of thin film and large area electronics, died on February 21st in Dundee. He was born in Germany in 1921 and came to Britain just before the war. He joined the staff of the University of Dundee in 1969, as Harris Professor of Physics, and established the Amorphous Materials Research Group)
Associated languageeng