David L. Allara

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David Lawrence Allara (born November 3, 1937 in Vallejo , California ) is an American chemist who specializes in surface chemistry and chemical materials science . He is a professor at Pennsylvania State University .

Allara graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and received her doctorate in 1964 under Saul Winstein at the University of California, Los Angeles . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Oxford and from 1965 at the Stanford Research Institute . From 1967 to 1969 he was an associate professor at San Francisco State College . From 1969 to 1984 he was a chemist at Bell Laboratories (from 1984 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff) and then until 1987 at Bell Communications Research. In 1987 he became a professor at Pennsylvania State University . In 2012 he became a Distinguished Professor there .

He deals with chemistry on surfaces and interfaces , especially organic compounds such as monolayers of organic sulfur compounds on gold surfaces. In the 1980s he worked here with Ralph Nuzzo (also in self-assembly on surfaces). For example, he studies how organic reactions behave when restricted to two dimensions and pursues applications in molecular electronics , chromatography and biomedical implants .

In 2003 he received the Adamson Award for Surface Chemistry from the American Chemical Society and in 1998 the Spectrochemical Analysis Award from the ACS. Also in 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linköping University . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2009 .

He was the co-founder and director of Molecular Electronics Incorporated and was a co-founder of Nanostar, NanoMolecular Sensors, and Nanomolecular Devices. Allara holds four US patents (2012).

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of David L. Allara at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ On appointment in 2012
personal data
SURNAME Allara, David L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allara, David Lawrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallejo , California