birth_place influences awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
rochester , new york lee alvin dubridge oliver e. buckley condensed matter prize -lrb- 1955 -rrb- american experimental physics general electric research laboratory 11 june 1915 leroy apker
 leroy apker university of rochester
leroy apker

leroy w. apker -lrb- 11 june 1915 -- 1970 -rrb- was an american experimental physicist .
along with his colleagues e. a. taft and jean dickey , he studied the photoelectric emission of electrons from semiconductors and discovered the phenomenon of exciton-induced photoemission in potassium iodide .
in 1955 , he received the oliver e. buckley condensed matter prize of the american physical society for his work .
