Humphrey Maris

Humphrey John Maris (April 25, 1939 – July 25, 2025) was a physicist and a professor at Brown University from 1965-2014. He specialized in research on low-temperature physics and ultrafast ultrasonics.

He attended Imperial College London receiving a B.Sc. degree in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1963. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Case Institute of Technology from 1963-1965. In 1965 he became a professor at Brown. In 1991 he was made the George Chase Professor of Natural Science. He led experiments into the nature of the quantum state of the electron. His patent on a method of nondestructive evaluation of semiconductors is widely used. He retired in 2014. He died of complications of Parkinson's Disease in 2025. Provided by Wikipedia