Awards & Winners

Frank J. Low

Date of Birth 23-November-1933
Place of Birth Mobile
(Mobile County, Alabama, United States of America, Area code 251)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frank Low
Profession Physicist
Frank James Low was a solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961. This detector extended the range of the observable spectrum to much longer wavelengths.

Awards by Frank J. Low

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frank J. Low.

1986


Rumford Prize
(For contributions to the development of infrared astronomy.)