Paul Charles Michaelis was a Bell Labs

Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...

 researcher in magnetic

Magnetism

Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well...

 bubble memory

Bubble memory

Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data...

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Education

Michaelis was born June 18, 1935, received BSEE and MS Physics from Newark College of Engineering (currently known as New Jersey Institute of Technology).

Career

Michaelis spent 43 years with Bell Labs

Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...

, primarily in Murray Hill

Murray Hill, New Jersey

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 and Whippany

Whippany, New Jersey

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He was primarily dealing with mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

, magnetics, fiber optics, electrical circuits, and device packaging. He also worked with underwater listening devices and equipment silencing for the United States Navy

United States Navy

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Michaelis was a Guest Lecturer in Magnetics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Michaelis retired from Bell Labs in 1996 as Technical Manager of the Advanced Vibration Reduction Design Group.

Notable Awards

Michaelis received the 1975 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers , the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who had "made public during the recent past an important...

 "for the concept and development of single-walled magnetic domains

Magnetic domains

A magnetic domain describes a region within a magnetic material which has uniform magnetization. This means that the individual magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned with one another and they point in the same direction...

(magnetic bubbles), and for recognition of their importance to memory technology."