LeRoy Apker

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Who is LeRoy Apker?

LeRoy W. Apker was an American experimental physicist. Along with his colleagues E. A. Taft and Jean Dickey, he studied the photoelectric emission of electrons from semiconductors and discovered the phenomenon of exciton-induced photoemission in potassium iodide. In 1955, he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society for his work.

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Born
Jun 11, 1915
Rochester
Education
  • University of Rochester

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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