Adam Heller

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Adam Heller (left) receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from George W. Bush

Adam Heller (born 25. June 1933 in Cluj , Romania ) is a Israeli - American chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin and entrepreneurs in the field of electrochemistry and organic electro-catalysis . He is best known for his development of biosensors to measure blood sugar . He also developed a bio fuel cell that generates electricity from blood sugar and oxygen .

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Heller was born in Cluj , Romania . His family was part of the large Jewish community there. The Heller family arrived in Switzerland in 1944 on the Kasztner transport , from where they emigrated to what was then Palestine in 1945 . Heller graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1957 a Master in Chemistry and in 1961 at Ernst David Bergmann a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley , before joining GTE Laboratories in 1964 and the Semiconductor Research Department at Bell Laboratories , which he headed from 1977 to 1988. Here he was involved in numerous developments, including the Nd: YAG laser , solar cells and lithium batteries . In 1988 he received a professorship in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin . Among other things, he dealt with the “wiring” of oxidoreductases .

With his son Ephraim Heller, he founded TheraSense in 1996 , which was sold to Abbott Laboratories in 2004. Heller developed blood glucose meters for TheraSense that only required micro-volumes of blood samples and systems for continuous blood glucose monitoring. For his youngest company, SynAgile, he developed devices for continuous subcutaneous drug administration, for example for Parkinson's disease .

Heller is (as of July 2016) the author of around 290 scientific publications and holds around 270 patents. According to Google Scholar, it has an h-index of 169 (as of June 2020) and 94 according to the Scopus database .

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  1. ↑ Adam Heller. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar Citations, accessed June 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Heller, Adam. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Adam Heller. In: nae.edu. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science - Uppsala University, Sweden. In: uu.se. Retrieved June 3, 2018 (Swedish).
  5. ^ The Faraday Medal. In: rsc.org. January 31, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  6. ^ Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh): Activity report 2005 (PDF, 3.2 MB), p. 16.
  7. ↑ NSTMF. In: nationalmedals.org. June 25, 1933, Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  8. ^ ACS Award for Creative Invention - American Chemical Society. In: acs.org. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Lista mottagare. Svenska Kemisamfundet, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Europe Section Heinz Gerischer Award. In: electrochem.org. Electrochemical Society, accessed June 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American chemical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj , Romania