Philip Kuekes, November 29, 2010
(Philip Kuekes died on November 29, 2010. This memorial appeared in the November, 2018 Class Notes.)
“Your scribe has just learned of the death of Philip Kuekes, from glioblastoma, on November 29, 2010. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Fairfield, Conn. He was a physics major at Yale.
He moved to the Bay Area in 1969, owned his own computer consulting business and worked for TRW in Mountain View. He later worked for Hewlett Packard, specializing in nanotechnology. (List of publications and patents.)
In 2000, he won the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for research into new ways to build computer chips using molecular-based logic gates.
He received many awards for his work and authored more than 70 patents. You can see him in a recent and fascinating video on YouTube, where he discusses his research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOekeiqihc. (Warning: this video contains graphic descriptions of atoms and computer memory, and may make you even more proud to be Y ’69.)
Phil enjoyed hiking and traveling the world, and was a devoted family man. His wife, Cynthia Kuekes, died suddenly and unexpectedly in late July, 2018. His daughter is Ofelie Kuekes, of Menlo Park.”
Philip Kuekes nanotechnology article 2000
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