Education and academic career
Alcorn received a four-year academic scholarship to
Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he graduated with a
Bachelor of Science in physics. He received his degree with honors while earning eight letters in basketball and football. Alcorn earned a
Master of Science in
Nuclear Physics in 1963 from
Howard University, after nine months of study. During the summers of 1962 and 1963, he worked as a research engineer for the Space Division of
North American Rockwell. He was involved with the computer analysis of launch trajectories and orbital mechanics for Rockwell missiles, including the
Titan I and II, the
Saturn, and the
Nova. == Private industry work ==
Personal life
Alcorn married his wife Marie Davillier in 1969 and they have one son born in 1979. He later married Dorothy Green after the death of his first wife. Alcorn died on June 19, 2024. == Patents issued ==
Patents issued
• #4,172,004, 10/23/1979, Method for forming dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias • #4,201,800, 5/6/1980, Hardened photoresist master image mask process • #4,289,834, 9/15/1981, Dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias • #4,472,728, 9/18/1984, Imaging X-ray spectrometer • #4,543,442, 9/24/1985, GaAs Schottky barrier photo-responsive device and method of fabrication • #4,618,380, 10/21/1986, Method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer • #4,062,720, 12/13/1977, Process for forming ledge-free aluminum copper silicon conductor structure • #3,986,912, 10/19/1976, Process for controlling the wall inclination of a plasma etched via hole == References ==