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1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
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Professor John Polanyi was born in 1929. He attended Manchester University, UK, for his undergraduate and doctoral training and held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and the Canadian National Research Council. His body of research focuses on molecular motions in chemical reactions in gases and at surfaces. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in reaction dynamics and development of infrared chemiluminescent methodology. He has been honored with the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London, served on the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Board on Science and Technology, as Honorary Consultant to the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan and as Honorary Advisor to the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. A dedicated social advocate, Polanyi has also published a book and over 100 articles on science policy and arms control. |
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Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biophysics
Department of Applied Physics and DIMES
Delft University of Technology
Delft, the Netherlands
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Professor Dekker is Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Delft University of Technology. He received his undergraduate and doctoral training at Utrecht University, and was a visiting researcher at IBM and at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. From 1988-1998, he researched Vortex dynamics in high-Tc superconductors and mesoscopic charge density waves. His groundbreaking studies on carbon nanotubes included discoveries about their function as quantum coherent molecular wires and as chirality-dependent semiconductors or metals. He has authored over 150 publications, three of which are ranked with over 1000 citations. Dekker is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the Agilent Europhysics Prize, the Julius Springer prize for Applied Physics, and the NWO Spinoza award, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. His current research focuses on biophysics and single biomolecules including DNA assembly and repair.
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