Evangelos Anastassakis: Scientist, Colleague and Friend
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I first met Evangelos at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 1969. Fred Pollak and I had started setting up a Raman laboratory at Brown University and, given Fred’s interest and experience in uniaxial stress techniques, we had decided to launch a program for measuring the effect of such stress on Raman phonons in solids, in particular semiconductors. We decided to begin with silicon. The pressure and sample preparation equipment was readily available at Brown but we had to wait for the Raman equipment and the funds to pay for it (which we got, in due course, from the University Administration!). At some conference we met Eli Burstein, with whom I had a long friendship dating back to 1958 (I was in 1958 a graduate student and Eli already a big man in Solid State Physics. I was impressed ever since by his way of treating me as an equal). Evangelos, then called by us ”Van”, may well have been present at the meeting. Eli suggested that what we should do is bring prepared samples and the pressure rig (we had to watch out not
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