Talk:John McGinness

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what is a hallmark

advance was made by McGinness, Corry, and Proctor who examined conduction through artificial and biological melanin oligomers. They observed semiconductor properties of the organic material and demonstrated strong negative differential resistance, a hallmark of modern advances in molecular electronics.. doi:10.1196/annals.1292.016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

What does hallmark mean? I understand it that he made one advance in the development.--Stone (talk) 08:54, 20 May 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Here "hallmark" means a primary characteristic. Stated-simply, modern materials in organic electronics also often show negative differential resistance. My informants tell me that it is one way you know you have an electronically-active organic compound. The significance is that he showed this effect first. Nucleophilic (talk) 16:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

John McGinness - famous but where is he now?

This person is notable according to some but it would help to have more information. Did he gain any external recognition ever? Some recognitions in the form of awards would support the wording in this article. Did he get past assistant professorship? We just do not have much information on his career.--Smokefoot (talk) 12:43, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A device on the rather short Smithsonian chip's list of key discoveries in semiconductor physics should be enough. Likewise the citations in the various review articles, which clearly note his priority. But it does not matter. According toWP:notability, "notability does not expire".Nucleophilic (talk) 16:28, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable person

This article and some associated with it was created and supported by a network of sock puppets. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]