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345: 332: 25: 338: 421: 431: 436: 252:. In 1994 he returned to MIT as the leader of the physics/industry forum for the physics department and remained a professor emeritus there until his death. 382: 212:(November 15, 1923 – September 5, 2013) was an American physicist who is considered a pioneer in semiconductor research. He earned his PhD in physics at 416: 411: 344: 441: 225: 171: 244:
in 1981. Wolff left the director's chair in 1987 and retired from his faculty position in 1989 to become a fellow of the newly created
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the following year. Thereafter Wolff joined the physics department of
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division. Together with P. M. Platzman, he coauthored the textbook
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
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as thesis advisor in 1951 and began his career at the
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