Uzi Landman

Uzi Landman (born May 1944 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli-American chemist.

Landman studied chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and at the Weizmann Institute with a master's degree in 1967. He received his doctorate in 1969 at the Technion in Haifa. In 1970/71 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and 1971/72 Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 1972 to 1975 he was a scientist at Webster Xerox Research Laboratories and from 1975 to 1977 a fellow at the Institute for Fundamental Studies at the University of Rochester. In 1977 he became Associate Professor and 1979 Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology . From 1988 he was there Regents Professor , 1991 Institute Professor , from 1995 Fuller E. Callaway Professor and from 1992 Director of the Institute for Computational Materials Science.

He dealt with solid-state physics and material science, for example solid-state surfaces (equilibrium structure and dynamics), growth processes at interfaces between liquids and solids, epitaxy and melting, surface diffusion and surface reactions, formation and properties of glasses, friction and lubrication at the microscopic level, small clusters (electron localization , Dynamics of excitations, dynamics of splitting), quantum dots, microscopic hydrodynamics (enclosed complex liquids), nanocatalysis, transport in DNA.

In 2005 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for pioneer calculations, which brought unique insights into material physics on the nanometer scale and thus stimulated new experimental and theoretical work (laudation). In 1999 he received the Jesse W. Beams Award .

From 1991 to 2000 he was the founding editor of the Journal of Computational Materials Science . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2000 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for pioneering work on numerical materials science for nanostructures (laudation) and in 2002 the Material Research Society Medal for fundamental contributions to the establishment of the field of nanotribology (laudation).

Fonts (selection)

• with WD Luedtke, NA Burnham, RJ Colton: Atomistic mechanisms and dynamics of adhesion, nanoindentation, and fracture, Science, Volume 248, 1990, pp. 454-461
• with B. Bushan, JN Israelachvili: Nanotribology: friction, wear and lubrication at the atomic scale, Nature, Volume 374, 1995, p. 607
• with RL Whetten u. a .: Nanocrystal gold molecules, Advanced Materials, Volume 8, 1996, pp. 428-433
• with CL Cleveland a. a .: Structural evolution of smaller gold nanocrystals: The truncated decahedral motif, Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, 1997, p. 1873
• with A. Sanchez u. a .: When gold is not noble: nanoscale gold catalysts, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Volume 103, 1999, pp. 9573-9578
• with M. Moseler: Formation, stability, and breakup of nanojets, Science, Volume 289, 2000, pp. 1165–1169
• with RN Barnett et al. a .: Charge migration in DNA: ion-gated transport, Science, Volume 294, 2001, pp. 567-571
• with H. Häkkinen, M. Moseler: Bonding in Cu, Ag, and Au clusters: relativistic effects, trends, and surprises, Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 89, 2002, p. 033401
• with H. Häkkinen a. a .: Structural, electronic, and impurity-doping effects in nanoscale chemistry: supported gold nanoclusters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 42, 2003, pp. 1297-1300
• with J. Gao u. a .: Frictional forces and Amontons' law: from the molecular to the macroscopic scale, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 108, 2004, pp. 3410-3425
• with B. Yoon u. a .: Charging effects on bonding and catalyzed oxidation of CO on Au8 clusters on MgO, Science, Volume 307, 2005, pp. 403-407
• with A. Desireddy u. a .: Ultrastable silver nanoparticles, Nature, Volume 501, 2013, p. 399

Web links

• Website at the gatech

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aneesur Rahman Prize