Phaedon Avouris

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Phaedon Avouris ( Greek Φαίδων Αβούρης , also transcribed Fedon Avouris ; * June 16, 1945 ) is a Greek chemist who works and researches in the field of nanotechnology at IBM in the USA .

Avouris studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and received his doctorate in physical chemistry from Michigan State University with M. Ashraf el-Bayoumi in 1974 . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1977/78 he was at Bell Laboratories and from 1978 at IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . Since 1984 he has been a manager in research (Chemical Physics Department).

He deals theoretically and experimentally with the electronic structure of and chemistry on metal and semiconductor surfaces, scanning tunneling microscopy, dynamics and mechanisms of interaction of particles and photons with surfaces, charge and energy transfer processes on surfaces.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Chemical Society, and the Material Research Society. Avouris is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2017).

Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

He is a US citizen.

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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 Phaedon Avouris at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates - Clarivate. In: clarivate.com. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Avouris, Phaedon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avouri, Fedon (alternative transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1945