Job Info
Employer:
New Jersey Institute of Technology - NJIT
Employer Home Page:
http://www.njit.edu/
Position Type:
Education
Research
Job skills:
Complex problem solving
Synthesizing information
Mathematical skills
Lab or instrumentation skills
Knowledge of physics principles
Modeling or simulation
Data analysis
Communication
Team work
Gordon Thomas' Job:
He collaborates with Dr. Richard Greene of NJIT and Dr. Robert Fechtner, director of the glaucoma division at UMDNJ-Newark Jersey Medical School on devices to prevent blindness through the New Jersey Vision Technology Center. In his classes, students learn the principles of physics by doing demonstrations.
My Previous Jobs:
He worked as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, studying the optical communications that helped develop the purest optical fiber. After Bell Laboratories, he worked on biophysics research at MIT. And now, as a physics professor at NJIT.
Career Facts
Employer Type:
School/Academia
Current Location:
Newark, NJ 07102
Physics Degree:
Doctorate
Educational Information
PhD - Physics, University of Rochester.
More about Gordon Thomas
Gordon Thomas' home page:
http://physics.njit.edu/people/thomas.php
Direct link to Gordon Thomas' profile:
http://www.njit.edu/features/faculty/gordon-thomas.php
Biography:
He has earned his PhD in Physics. Has acquired 16 patents and published 150 research papers. For these achievements, he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor given only to the leading 3 percent of physicists in the nation.