Facts: - residence: united states - known for: flicker devices soft error noise semiconductor device physics radiation effects of semiconductor - spouse: betsy fleetwood - parents: louis and dorothy fleetwood - children: 3 - birth date: 03 august 1958 - name: daniel m. fleetwood - citizenship: united states - occupation: inventor university -rrb- , iccf grandmaster , scientist , engineer , professor -lrb- vanderbilt - image: dan fleetwood.jpg - birth place: surprise , indiana , united states - alma mater: purdue university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of daniel m. fleetwood .
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daniel m. fleetwood is an eminent american scientist , inventor , engineer and innovator .he is credited as being one of the first to identify the origins of flicker noise in semiconductor devices and its usefulness in understanding the ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials .fleetwood is the olin h. landreth chair of the electrical engineering and computer science department at vanderbilt university in nashville , tennessee .his research work focuses on the effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials , origins of 1/f noise in semiconductors and radiation hardness assurance .in 1997 he received r&d 100 and '' industryweek '' magazine awards for co-inventing a new type of computer memory chip based on mobile protons .the chip was recognized as '' discover '' magazine 's 1998 invention of the year in computer hardware and electronics .in 2000 he was named one of the top 250 most highly cited researchers in engineering by the institute for scientific information .he is a fellow of the institute of electrical and electronics engineers and american physical society , and a grandmaster of international correspndence chess .