Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Materials McElvain
12:15 Thursday, April 28
1315 Chemistry
GSFLC Colloquium
3:30 Friday, April 29
1315 Chemistry
Frontiers in
Science
On the Impact
of Graphene
Mildred Dresselhaus is the recipient of the
National Medal of Science and 27 honorary
degrees worldwide. She has served as President
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Treasurer of the
National Academy of Sciences, President of the
American Physical Society, and Chair of the
Governing Board of the American Institute of
Physics. She served as Director of the Office of
Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Professor Dresselhaus's research over the years
has covered a wide range of topics in
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She is
best known for her work on carbon science and
carbon nanostructures, as well as nanoscience
and nanotechnology more generally. She is also
one of the researchers responsible for the
resurgence of the thermoelectrics research field
through her early work on low dimensional
thermoelectricity in the early 1990's.