Paul Charles Michaelis


Paul Charles Michaelis was a Bell Labs researcher in magnetic bubble memory.

Education

Michaelis was born June 18, 1935 in NYC, raised in New Jersey on a Scotch Plains farm, went to high School in Scotch Plain, First worked in Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, starting career as a junior draftsman, attended it's drafting school. Subsequently attended NCE Newark College of Engineering, Received BSEE and MS Physics. After several promotions was promoted to Member of Bell Laboratories Technical Staff and subsequently promoted to Technical Manager. NJ.

Career

Michaelis spent 43 years with Bell Labs, primarily in Murray Hill and Whippany.
He primarily dealt with mechanics, magnetics, fiber optics, electrical circuits, device packaging, acoustic surveillance and vibration reduction. He also worked on underwater surveillance devices and equipment silencing for the United States Navy.
Michaelis was a Guest Lecturer in Magnetics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences USSR in 1972, lecturing at the University of Moscow, University in Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia and the Semiconductor Institute in Leningrad .
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 "for the concept and development of single-walled magnetic domains, and for recognition of their importance to memory technology." The single walled concept was the seminal idea that led to "magnetic bubbles" and charge coupled devices.