Moungi Bawendi

Moungi Gabriel Bawendi (* 1961 in Paris ) is an American chemist .

Live and act

Bawendi is the son of the Tunisian mathematician M. Salah Baouendi (1937–2011). Bawendi grew up in France, Tunisia and West Lafayette , Indiana .

Bawendi acquired in 1982 a Bachelor in chemistry at Harvard University , in 1983 a Master in physical chemistry up there and in 1988 Karl F. Freed a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago . As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked with Louis Brus at AT&T Bell Laboratories .

Since 1990 he has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , Massachusetts , becoming an associate professor in 1995 and a full professorship in 1996.

Bawendi developed methods to semiconductors - nanocrystals produce that can be determined very accurately in their size and their properties. His research focuses on the synthesis and the electronic and optical properties of quantum dots (quantum dots) and their applications in biology , optoelectronics and nanoelectronics .

Awards (selection)

• 1994 Sloan Research Fellow
• 2001 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Chemistry ("Physical Sciences")
• 2004 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2006 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize
• 2007 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2010 ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry

Web links

• Bawendi Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Spectrograph. Spring 2007 at mit.edu; accessed on May 2, 2019.
2. ^ Salah Baouendi Obituary at the New York Times (legacy.com); Retrieved October 12, 2013
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Tech. August 29, 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu); Retrieved October 12, 2013
4. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Moungi G. Bawendi at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.
5. ↑ Professor Moungi G Bawendi at the Royal Society of Chemistry (rsc.org) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed August 11, 2019 . 
7. ^ Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences at Tel Aviv University (tau.ac.il); Retrieved October 12, 2013
8. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF; 1.0 MB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved October 12, 2013
9. ^ Moungi G. Bawendi, 2006 at the United States Department of Energy (energy.gov); Retrieved October 12, 2013
10. ^ Moungi G. Bawendi at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); Retrieved October 12, 2013