Jene Andrew Golovchenko
1946 - 2018
Jene Golovchenko was born in 1946 in the Bronx, New York, and received his PhD in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1972. He did postdoctoral studies at Aarhus University in Denmark before spending several years as a physicist at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He then joined the Physics Department at Harvard University, where he was Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics. He was also affiliated with the School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Rowland Institute at Harvard. His career also took him to the laboratories at Brookhaven, Livermore, and CERN.
Golovchenko's important contributions to physics were related to ion implantation, scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic and x-ray physics, and nanopore physics. He led the Harvard Nanopore Group with Daniel Branton.
He died on November 13, 2018.