Charles Musgrave is an American chemist, engineer and materials scientist. He won the 1993

Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology The Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology is an award given by the Foresight Institute for significant advances in nanotechnology. Two prizes are awarded annually, in the categories of experimental and theoretical work. There is also a separate chal ...

. He earned his Ph.D. at the

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in 1994, his B.S. at the

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and was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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. He previously taught chemical engineering and materials science and engineering at

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and chemistry at

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. He currently teaches at the

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, where he is professor, associate dean for graduate education in the college of engineering and applied science and served as the chair of the department of chemical and biological engineering from 2016 to 2020. His field of research involves using computational quantum mechanical and machine-learning methods to model molecular processes and materials. The goals of his research include the discovery and design of materials for catalysis, energy conversion and storage as well as the chemistry of microelectronics, nanofabrication and polymerization.

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