| R. Fabian Pease | |
| Birth Place: | Cambridge, England |
| Discipline: | Engineer |
| Birth Date: | 1936 10, df=y |
| Workplaces: | Stanford University |
| Relatives: | Pease family |
Roger Fabian Wedgwood Pease (born 24 October 1936) is an engineer and William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University.[1] He is also an emeritus member of the National Academy of Engineering[2] and Fellow of the IEEE.[3] His research includes work in the fields of micro- and nanofabrication, nanostructures,[4] and miniaturization.[5]
Pease was born in Cambridge,[6] the youngest of 6 children of Helen Bowen Wedgwood and Michael Stewart Pease, making him a member of both the Pease and Wedgwood families. He attended Bedales School; after completing schooling, he joined the Royal Air Force in 1955, serving two years and becoming a radar officer.[7] [8] He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later received Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1964; that year, he moved to the United States.
Pease's Ph.D. was on improving the scanning electron microscope to resolutions below .[9]
Pease worked as an assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1967, after which he worked at Bell Labs. In 1978 he became a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he held the William Ayer Professorship. In 2009 he retired and was made emeritus. The Pease-Ye professorship at Stanford was named in his honor on its endowment.[10]
Pease is credited as the co-inventor of microchannel cooling for chip stacks.[11]