Nadrian C. Seeman
Nadrian Charles "Ned" Seeman (born December 16, 1945 in Chicago ) is an American biochemist and biophysicist.
Seeman graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his PhD in biochemistry and X-ray crystallography from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. As a post-graduate student , he was at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1977 he became an Assistant Professor and in 1988 Professor of Chemistry at New York University in Albany.
He is considered the founder of structural DNA nanotechnology and studies, for example, connections between DNA strands and knots. Using synthetic DNA strands, he built nanotubes, polyhedra, two- and three-dimensional grids and other structures. It was used to build nanorobots and other machines. His laboratory also deals with DNA computing. In 1991 he synthesized a trefoil knot from single-stranded DNA.
He received the Feynman Prize and in 2010 the Kavli Prize in Nanosciences. He is an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . Since 2013 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations . In 1995 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology and in 2016 the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute . In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Career data based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ 2013 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seeman, Nadrian C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seeman, Ned |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |