Paul Charles Michaelis was a

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey, the compa ...

researcher in

magnetic Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, m ...

bubble memory Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile memory, non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as ''bubbles'' or ''domains'', each storing one bit of data. The material is arrange ...

Education

Michaelis was born June 18, 1935, in New York City, raised in New Jersey on a Scotch Plains farm, went to high School in Scotch Plain, First worked in Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, starting career as a junior draftsman, attended its drafting school. Subsequently, attended NCE Newark College of Engineering, (now "New Jersey Institute of Technology") Received BSEE, BSME and MS physics. After several promotions was promoted to member of Bell Laboratories technical staff and subsequently promoted to technical manager, New Jersey.

Career

Michaelis spent 43 years with

, primarily in Murray Hill and Whippany. He primarily dealt with

mechanics Mechanics () is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among Physical object, physical objects. Forces applied to objects may result in Displacement (vector), displacements, which are changes of ...

, magnetics,

fiber optics An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at ...

electrical circuits An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical components (e.g., batteries, resistors, inductors, capacitors, switches, transistors) or a model of such an interconnection, consisting of electrical elements (e.g., voltage so ...

, device packaging, acoustic surveillance and vibration reduction. He also worked on underwater surveillance devices and equipment silencing for the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...

. Michaelis was a guest lecturer in magnetics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences USSR in 1972, lecturing at the University of Moscow, University in Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia and the Semiconductor Institute in Leningrad ow St Petersburg Michaelis retired from Bell Labs in 1996 as technical manager of the Advanced Vibration Reduction Design Group.

Notable awards

Michaelis received the 1975

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who h ...

"for the concept and development of single-walled magnetic domains (magnetic bubbles), and for recognition of their importance to memory technology." The single walled concept was the seminal idea that led to "magnetic bubbles" and charge coupled devices.

References

* Bonyhard, P.; Geusic, J.; Bobeck, A.; Yu-Ssu Chen; Michaelis, P.; Smith, J., "Magnetic bubble memory chip design", ''IEEE Transactions on Magnetics'', Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 433–436. September 1973. * Michaelis, P.; Richards, W., "Magnetic bubble mass memory", ''IEEE Transactions on Magnetics'', Volume 11, Issue 1, pages 21–25. January 1975.
Letter from Paul Michaelis, Reader Feedback, Design News, November 13, 2007

United States Patent 4027298: Magnetic bubble memory bias magnet arrangement

* ttp://patft.uspto.gov//netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm Paul+Charles+Michaelis United States Patent 3735370: Input for Single-Wall Domain Arrangement
Paul+Charles+Michaelis United States Patent 4164790: Magnetic Bubble Packaging Arrangement

* ttp://patft.uspto.gov//netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm Paul+Charles+Michaelis United States Patent 3454939: Magnetic Domain Propagation Device
Paul+Charles+Michaelis United States Patent 3471819: Thermally Activated Bistable Switch

* ttp://patft.uspto.gov//netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm Paul+Charles+Michaelis United States Patent 3480925: Asynchronous Magnetic Circuit
Paul+Charles+Michaelis Canadian Patent 2011561: Apparatus and Method for Making Low-loss Permanent Optical Fiber Splices

Paul+C+Michaelis Canadian Patent 824830: Asynchronous Magnetic Circuit
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