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Lawrence Barak, Assistant Research Professor, Duke Medical, Department of Cell Biology, Ph.D. 1982, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "Cytoskeleton-Membrane Interactions: A Fluorescence Study of (NBO Phallacidin) - Actin Labeling and Low Density Liproprotein-Receptor Complex Diffusion on Human Fibroblasts"

Malcolm Beasley, Theodore & Sydney Rosenberg Prof of Applied Physics, Prof of Electrical Eng By Courtesy, Ginzton Lab, Stanford University, Ph.D. 1968, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "Flux Creep in Hard Superconductors"

John Bloom, Associate Professor of Physics, Biola University, Ph.D. 1981, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "The Lateral Mobility of Fluorescent Lipid Analogs in Plasma Membrane of Intact Erythrocytes"

Richard Brand, Professor, University of Duisburg, Ph.D. 1972, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "The Paramagnetic Critical State: Pinning in a Series of Type II Superconducting Alloys"

Edward Brown, Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical, Ph.D. 1999, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Quantitative Photochemical Applications of Multiphoton Laser-Scanning Microscopy"

Ingrid Brust-Mascher, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC-Davis, Ph.D. 1995, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Dynamics of Calcium Signals and Cell Surface Diffusion"

Robert Buhrman, J. E. Sweet Professor of Engineering, Cornell School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Ph.D. 1973, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "The Diamagnetic Transition in a 'Zero-Dimensional' Superconductor"

Stephen J. Burns, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Rochester, Ph.D. 1967, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Dynamical Cleavage of LiF: Fracture Surface Energies, Dislocation Processes & Transverse Fracture"

John Claassen, Staff Scientist, Naval Research Lab, Ph.D. 1973, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Fluctuation Diamagnetism of Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys above the Superconducting Transition Temperature"

Winfried Denk, Director, Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung Biomedizinische Optik, Ph.D. 1989, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Biophysical Studies of Mechano-electrical Transduction in Hair Cells"

Dan Dombeck, Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Ph.D. 2005, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "Imaging Neural Structure and Function By Second-Harmonic Generation and Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy"

Patricia Donaldson (nee Kurtz), Staff Scientist, Xerox Corp, Ph.D. 1989, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Modulation of Lateral Diffusion on Lipid Bilayer Membranes"

Paul Dragsten, Vice President, Research and Development, Biomedical Frontiers, Inc., Ph.D. 1977, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Mechanisms of Voltage-Induced Fluorescence Changes of the Membrane Probe Merocyanine 540: A Fluorescence Polarization Study"

Toni Feder, Editorial Staff, Physics Today, Ph.D. 1993, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Fluorescence Studies of Structural Dynamic and Functional Properties of the Rat Basophilic Leukemia Cell Plasma Membrane"

William Fietz, Retired, 1996 MIT, Nat'l Magnet Lab, Ph.D. 1967, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Reversible and Irreversible Magnetic Properties of Some Type II Alloy Superconductors"

Michael Frish, Research Scientist, Physical Sciences, Inc. , Ph.D. 1982, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Direct Optical Measurements of Vorticity in a Nearly Turbulent Boundary Layer"

Neil Gershenfeld, Professor and Director, Physics and Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Ph.D. 1990, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Representation of Chaos"

Lucien Ghislain, Product Support Engineer for the Protrait, Labcyte, Ph.D. 1994, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Force Microscopy Based on the Optical Trapping of Microscopic Particles"

Richik Ghosh, Principal Scientist, Cellomics, Ph.D. 1991, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Mobility and Clustering of Individual Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor Molecules on the Surface of Human Skin Fibroblasts"

Jeffrey Guild, Quality Assurance Coordinator, Medical Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Ph.D. 1997, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Real-Time Two-photon Excited Fluorescence Laser-Scanned Microscopy"

Benham Hashemi, Ph.D. 1994, Watt W. Webb, Chaired Only, Thesis Advisor B. Baird,Thesis Title: "T Cell Receptor Dynamics: Lateral Diffusion and its Role in T Cell Signaling"

Walter Henkels, Staff Scientist, IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, Ph.D. 1974, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Intrinsic Fluctuation Effects and Certain Other Aspects of Superconducting Weak Links"

Sam Hess, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Ph.D. 2002, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "Fluorescence Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Proteins and Designed Molecules Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Multiphoton Excitation for Biological Applications"

John Shiao-shih Huang, Associate Director, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, Ph.D. 1969, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Thesis Title: "Properties of the Interface near the Critical Consolute Point of a Binary Mixture"

Larry Jackel, Program Manager, DARPA Tactical Technology Office, Ph.D. 1976, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Experimental Studies of Superconducting Weak Links"

David Harley Johnson, Solar Energy Research Inst., Ph.D. 1974, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Measurement of the Rate-of-Strain Tensor in a Turbulent Flow Using Light Scattered from Asymmetric Particles"

Chi-Yu King, Geophysicist and Advisor, Earthquake Prediction Research, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1995-present) , Ph.D. 1965, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Internal Fracture of Glass by Thermal Shock"

Jonas Korlach, Lead Research Scientist, Pacific Biosciences, Inc., Ph.D. 2002, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Spatial Constraint Strategies for Characterizing Single Biomolecules by Fluorescence Spectroscopy"

Millard Lambert, Scientist, GlaxoWellcome R&D, Ph.D. 1989, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, Chaired Only, Thesis Advisor H. Scheraga,Thesis Title: "Pattern Recognition in the Prediction of Protein Structure"

Daniel R. Larson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Condeelis and Singer Laboratories, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Ph.D. 2004, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Optical Approaches to the Study of Nanoparticles and Biology: Quantum Dots, Silica Dots, and Retroviruses"

Daniel Don-On Mak, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Physiology Department, Ph.D. 1993, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Analysis of Single-Channel Current and its Noise in Two Kinds of Channels Formed by Purified Uncharged Alamethicin F50"

Joseph Mantese, Research Scientist, Delphi Research and Development Center, Ph.D. 1986, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Resistivity and Resistivity Fluctuations of Thin Film Platinum-Aluminum Oxide Granular Metal-Insulator Composites"

Eugene Nothnagel, Professor of Plant Physiology, Chair of Botany and Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Ph.D., Thesis Advisor 1981 Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Studies of the Mechanisms of Cytoplasmic Streaming in Chara Corallina"

Lorinda Opsahl-Ong, Vice President, General Electric Financial & Marketing Analytics Program, Niskayuna, NY, Ph.D. 1993, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: Physical Mechanisms of Mechano-Electrical Transduction in the Model Channel Forming Peptide Alamethicin""

Timothy Ryan, Professor, Weill Medical College of Cornell, Department of Biochemistry, Ph.D. 1989, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Signal Transduction of IgE Receptor Crosslinking"

David Sandison, Staff Scientist, Sandia National Labs, Instrumentation Engineering and Technology Department, Ph.D. 1993, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Fluorescence Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy for Three-dimensional Imaging of Living Biological Specimens"

Marilyn Schneider, Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore NL, Ph.D. 1983, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Defects, Diffusion and Fluctuations in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals"

Daniel Schuresko, Chief Information Officer, U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, Ph.D. 1983, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "A Photoperturbation-Relaxation Approach to the Kinetics of Cooperative Ligand Binding by Heme Proteins"

John Scofield, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Oberlin College, Ph.D. 1985, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Low Frequency Resistivity Fluctuations in Thin Metal Films: An Experimental Study"

James Strickler, CEO and Founder, Cragmaker Inc., Ph.D. 1994, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Two-photon Laser Scanning Microscopy, Microlithography, and Multi-layered Optical Data Storage"

David Tank, Professor, Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology, Ph.D. 1983, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Biophysical Studies of Membrane Receptors and Ion Channels. I. Lateral Diffusion and Constraints on the Cell Surface. II. Patch-recorded Currents through Single Reconstituted Ion Channels"

James Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Ph.D. 1991, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Fluorescence Studies of Lipid-Protein Interactions on the Rat Basophilic Leukemia Cell Surface"

Russell Thompson, Securities Analyst, San Francisco, Ph.D. 2000, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Capacitance measurements of RBL-2H3 mucosal mast cell secretion"

Harsh Vishwasrao, Postdoctoral Associate, Columbia University Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Ph.D. 2004, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Quantitative Two-Photon Redox Fluorescence Microscopy of Neurometabolic Dynamics"

Daniel Wack, Vice President, KLA-Tencor, Ph.D. 1989, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Modulations and Fluctuations in Lyotropic Smectic Liquid Crystals"

Richard Warburton, Director, GWR Instruments, Ph.D. 1971, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Fluctuations near the Phase Transition in 'One Dimensional' Superconductors"

John Warlaurant, Ph.D. 1980, Watt W. Webb Chaired Only, Thesis Advisor R. Buhrman,Thesis Title: "Properties of Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Micribridges"

Randolph Watts, Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Ph.D. 1973, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Critical Opalescent Light Scattering in the 3He-4He Micture Near the Tricritical Point"

Rebecca Williams, Senior Research Associate, DRBIO, Cornell University, Ph.D. 1996, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "One, Two and Three-photon Excitation in Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy: Live Cell Measurements of Phospholipase Hydrolysis Serotonin Release and Calcium Sparks"

David Wolf, Chief Scientific Officer, Sensor Technologies, Shrewsbury, MA, Ph.D. 1979, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "The Diffusion, Patching, and Capping on Model and 3-T3 Cell Plasma Membranes"

En-Shinn Wu, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Ph.D. 1973, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "The Liquid-Vapor Interface of Sulfur Hexafluoride Near the Critical Point"

Chris Xu, Assistant Professor of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ph.D. 1996, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Multiphoton Excitation of Molecular Fluorophores in Nonlinear Laser Scanning Microscopy"

Jie Yao, Postdoctoral Associate, Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ph.D. 2006, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb, "Live Cell Imaging of Transcription Activation of Drosophila Heat Shock Genes and Characterization of Water-Soluble Quantum Dots"

Neil Zimmerman, Research Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Ph.D. 1990, Thesis Advisor Watt W. Webb,Thesis Title: "Resistance 1/f Noise due to the Motion of Hydrogen in Palladium and Amorphous Palladium-Silicon"