Michael Shur
American physicist
Michael Shur (November 13, 1942 – June 5, 2026) was a Russian and American physicist and academic who was a professor of solid state electronics and electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Background
Shur was born on November 13, 1942, in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR. He received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. in physics from the A.F. Ioffe Institute in Petersburg, Russia. In 1993, he received Dr. Sc. degree from A.F. Ioffe Institute.
He held research or faculty positions at the A.F. Ioffe Institute, Wayne State University, Oakland University, Cornell University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the University of Minnesota. From 1989 to 1996, he was the John Money Professor at the University of Virginia, where he served as the director of the Applied Electrophysics Laboratories in 1996. He moved to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996.
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