M. Reza Ghadiri is an
Iranian-American
Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship.
Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busine ...
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...
who studies
nanoscale
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science and technology.
Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1987) from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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. He is currently a Professor of chemistry at
The Scripps Research Institute
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.
The 1998
Feynman Prize
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 chall ...
was awarded to Ghadiri for work in constructing molecular structures through the use of
self-organization
Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when suffi ...
. His lab also pioneered the development of peptide self-replication.
Awards
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Searle Scholars Award
The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to the 15 young US professionals in biomedical research and chemistry considered most promising. The award was established in 1980 by a donation from the Searle family, and is ...
1991-1994;
*Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation,
Beckman Young Investigators Award
The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991, and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to p ...
, 1991-1993;
*Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993-1995;
*Eli Lilly Grantee 1994-1995;
*
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
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1995;
*Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society 1999;
*Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology 1998;
*Merck-Frosst Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia 2001;
*Belleau Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2001.
See also
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Iranian science
Iran has made considerable advances in science and technology through education and training, despite international sanctions in almost all aspects of research during the past 30 years. Iran's university population swelled from 100,000 in 1979 ...
References
External links
Faculty profilea
The Scripps Research Institute
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Iranian chemists
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
American people of Iranian descent
Living people
Scripps Research faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)