Flashcards: Nanotechnologists

Hongjie Dai (Chinese: 戴宏杰; born 2 May 1966 in Shaoyang, China) is a Chinese-American Chemist and Applied Physicist, the J.

Richard B. Kaner is a synthetic inorganic chemist, whose work spans across many areas of expertise.

Thalappil Pradeep is an Institute professor and Professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Walter De Brouwer ([də ˈbrʌuər]; born May 9, 1957) is a Belgian-born Internet and technology entrepreneur and semiotician.

Miguel José Yacamán (born 1946 in Córdoba, Veracruz) is a Mexican physicist who has made many contributions to the field of nanotechnology.

Nicola Gaston is Senior Lecturer in chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington and Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute, New Zealand.

Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966, Princeton, New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company), and the science columnist for Syfy.

Milan K. Sanyal is an Indian physicist, active in the fields of surface physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Morinobu Endo (遠藤 守信 Endō Morinobu, born September 28, 1946) is a Japanese physicist and chemist, often cited as one of the pioneers of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes synthesis at the beginning of the 1970s.

Christine Peterson is an American nanotechnologist, futurist, and the co-founder of Foresight Institute.

Patrick Denis Lincoln (born 1964) is an American computer scientist leading the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) at SRI International.

Michael J. Sailor is a nanotechnology researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Ajay Kumar Sood (born 1951) is an Indian physicist, researcher and holder of 2 US and 5 Indian patents, known for his pioneering research findings on graphene and nanotechnology.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: ​[ʒanpjɛʁ sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University.

Paul McEuen (born 1963) is an American physicist.

Paul S. Weiss (born October 10, 1959) is a leading American nanoscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Yury Georgievich Gogotsi (born December 16, 1961, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a leading Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA since the year 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology).

Francisco Javier "Frank" Duarte (born c. 1954) is a Chilean-born laser physicist and author/editor of several well-known books on tunable lasers and quantum optics.

Fereydoon Family (born September 18, 1945) is a leading Persian physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics.

Gordon Wallace (born 9 June 1958 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a leading scientist in the field of electromaterials.

Ehud Gazit (Hebrew: אהוד גזית; Russian: Эхуд Газит), is an Israeli biochemist, biophysicist and nanotechnologist.

Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist and pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Prasenjit Sen (born January 11, 1956) is a professor at the School of Physical Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Professor Shareen Heather Doak (born 1 December 1978) holds a personal chair in Genotoxicology and Cancer at Swansea University and is a leading female British scientist in the field of Nanotoxicology globally.

Richard John Blaikie (born 25 August 1965) is a physicist who works in the field of nano-scale optics.

Jackie Yi-Ru Ying (born 1966) is a nanotechnology researcher and the executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore.

Yue Qi is a computational materials scientist at Michigan State University.

Evelyn L. Hu is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University.

Anita Goel (Hindi: अनीता गोयल) is a physicist and physician in the United States.

Harald Fuchs (born April 15, 1951) is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Münster, Germany, Scientific Director of the Center of Nanotechnology (CeNTech) in Münster, and co-director of the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) in Karlsruhe.

Mark Arthur Reed (born January 4, 1955) is an American physicist and professor at Yale University.

John Storrs "Josh" Hall is involved in the field of molecular nanotechnology.

Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and W.

Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan, known as P.

René Janssen (born 1959) is a Dutch professor of Moleculair Materials and Nanosystems at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Nashwa Abo Alhassan Eassa is a nano-particle physicist from Sudan.

Aliasger K. Salem is the Bighley Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Head of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

Hiromichi Kataura (片浦 弘道 Kataura Hiromichi) is a Japanese scientist known for his work on synthesis and characterization of single-wall and double-wall carbon nanotubes and on encapsulation of water, fullerenes and other organic molecules into carbon nanotubes.

Ille Christine Gebeshuber (born 10 April 1969 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria) is an Austrian physicist who is specialized in nanophysics and biomimetics.

James M. Tour is a synthetic organic chemist, specializing in nanotechnology.

Cornelis "Cees" Dekker (born April 7, 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch scientist known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and nanobiology.

Claes-Göran Granqvist was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 1946.

Mark C. Hersam is a professor of Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering at Northwestern University (2000–present) who, according to the National Science Foundation, has made "major breakthrough[s]" in the field of nanotechnology.

Welland completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in physics from the University of Leeds in 1979 and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in physics from the University of Bristol in 1984 for research on grain boundaries.

Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

David Alexander Britz (born November 23, 1980) is an American scientist and engineer who is best known for his contributions to the field of materials science and nanotechnology.

David Carroll (born January 13, 1963) is a U.

Bayley was educated at The King's School, Chester, Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in 1979.

Katsunori Wakabayashi (若林 克法 Wakabayashi Katsunori) is a physicist at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.

Mitsutaka Fujita (藤田 光孝 Fujita Mitsutaka, August 16, 1959 – March 18, 1998) was a Japanese physicist.

Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.