James R. Heath

James R. Heath (* around 1962) is an American chemist and nanoscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology .

Life

Heath acquired in 1984 at Baylor University a bachelor and was at 1988 Richard Smalley at Rice University with the work metal, semiconductor, and carbon cluster studies Including the discovery and characterization of C₆₀: buckminsterfullerene doctorate . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . In 1994 he received his first professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and in 1997 a full professorship. Here he founded the California NanoSystems Institute , which he headed until 2000 when he moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). At Caltech he is the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor and Professor of Chemistry and at UCLA he is Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology . He is also director of the National Cancer Institute NSB Cancer Center .

Act

Heath was a graduate student involved in the working group, the C ₆₀ - fullerene ( "buckyball") for the first time produced ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 at Richard Smalley , Robert Curl and Harold Kroto ). Heath built a molecular switch (molecular swith) , the future as an important element nano-devices is considered.

Heath's interdisciplinary working group dealt with quantum phase transitions , as well as with blueprints, components and circuits for molecular electronics . Recent work deals with the application of nanoelectronics in cancer research and diagnosis.

The Forbes magazine counted Heath 2009 important to the seven inventors worldwide. Heath ranks 28th on Thomson Reuters' list of the most cited chemists from 2000 to 2010.

Awards (selection)

• 1988–1990 Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
• 1997 Sloan Research Fellow
• 1999 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2000 Julius Springer Prize
• 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
• 2001 Sackler Prize in Chemistry

Web links

• James R. Heath and Heath Group at the California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)
• James R. Heath at the Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNEs) of the National Cancer Institute (nano.cancer.gov)
• Interview with Michael C. McAlpine and James R. Heath at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com)
• James R. Heath at the University of California, Los Angeles (as of 2001)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of James Richard Heath at academictree.org, accessed February 9, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology . Foresight Nanotech Institute. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
3. ↑ Michael Cima Picks The Seven Most Powerful Innovators at Forbes Magazine (forbes.com); Website loads incompletely, October 25, 2013
4. ^ Top 100 Chemists, 2000–2010, Ranked by Citation Impact at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved October 25, 2013
5. ^ All Miller Fellows at the University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu); Retrieved October 24, 2013
6. ^ Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics at Springer Science + Business Media (springer.com); Retrieved October 23, 2013
7. ^ Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences at Tel Aviv University (tau.ac.il); Retrieved October 23, 2013