Mildred Dresselhaus
American physicist (1930-2017) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 86
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, known as the "Queen of Carbon Science", was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist. She was an Institute Professor and professor of both physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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She also served as the president of the American Physical Society, the chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the director of science in the US Department of Energy under the Bill Clinton Government. Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award, the Kavli Prize and the Vannevar Bush Award.
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Susan SolomonBoth received Weizmann Women & Science Award
John B. GoodenoughBoth received Von Hippel Award
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.Both received Vannevar Bush Award
Louis E. BrusBoth received Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
Fang LizhiBoth received Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
Clifford ShullBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize