THE ELLIOTT W. MONTROLL LECTURES
Prof. Duke is an industrial physicist with a long-term association
with Xerox Research Laboratories in Webster, NY. Following his retirement as Vice
President and Senior Research Fellow in the Xerox Innovation Group, he joined the University
as Professor (Research) of Physics. Prof. Duke was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1993)
and to the National Academy of Sciences (2001). He is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, the
American Physical Society, and the IEEE. He received the Welch Award in Vacuum Science and Technology
(1977) and the Pake Prize of the American Physical Society (2006). In 1981 he was named one of the ISI
1000 internationally most cited scientists. He has written over 370 papers in the areas
of surface science, materials research, semiconductors, and electronic structure of molecular solids.
