Yang Peidong

Yang Peidong (born August 22, 1971 in Suzhou ) is a Chinese chemist and materials scientist. He is a professor of chemistry and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley .

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Yang received his BS in Chemistry from China University of Science and Technology . In 1997 he received from Harvard University to the Ph.D. in chemistry with Charles M. Lieber and was postdoc with Galen D. Stucky at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1997 to 1999 . In 1999 he became an assistant professor in Berkeley, from 2004 with a permanent position (tenure). He heads the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, is Associate Director of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS), and is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

His research area is the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials in optoelectronics, one-dimensional nanostructures (nanowires) and he is particularly known for the nanowire laser. This made him one of the ten most cited chemists in the 2000s (Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index).

He is a co-founder of Nanosys, a nanomaterials company, and, with Matthew L. Scullin, founder of Alphabet Energy. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society .

Peidong has received numerous awards ( Alan T. Waterman Award , Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize ) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . He has been a MacArthur Fellow since 2015 .

Fonts

• with Michael Huang, Samuel Mao, Henning Feick, Haoquan Yan, Yiying Wu, Hannes Kind, Eicke Weber, Richard Russo: Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers, Science, Volume 292, 2001, p. 1897, abstract

Web links

• Yang at UC Berkeley
• The Peidong Yang Group
• Yang's CV at the University of California
• Berkeley Nanotechnology Pioneer to Receive $ 500,000 Waterman Award
• Robert Sanders: Chemist Peidong Yang wins NSF Waterman Award. In: berkeley.edu. University of California, Berkeley , May 15, 2007 (English). 

supporting documents

1. ↑ Peidong Yang, 44, living in Berkeley, California , NPR, September 29, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Yang is the family name here, Peidong is the first name.