Bernard S. Meyerson

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Bernard S. Meyerson (born June 2, 1954) is an American solid-state physicist from New York City. He studied at the City College of New York, then earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. at the City University of New York, and began working at IBM. In 1998, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for inventing ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition and using it for low-temperature silicon epitaxy, including the fabrication of SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors for wireless communications. He received the APS George E. Pake Prize in 2011. Meyerson won the J. J. Ebers Award in 2000 from the IEEE Electron Devices Society and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.