Nader Engheta
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Nader Engheta (Born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian scientist and inventor of "invisibility shield" or plasmonic cover.
He received his B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering (Fanni) at University of Tehran in 1978, and his Ph.D. degree from Caltech in 1982. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999 for his work on "Fractional paradigm of classical electrodynamics." He is currently the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania.
The Scientific American selected Nader Engheta as one of the top 50 leaders in Science and Technology for the year 2005-2006.
[edit] Awards and honors
- Top 50 research leaders of the year 2006, Scientific American magazine
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)
- IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair
- Fulbright Naples Chair Award (1998)
- S. Reid Warren Jr. Award
- W. M. Keck Foundation's Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (1995)
- Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award (1994)
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award (1989)
[edit] Books
- Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations, Engheta and Richard W Ziolkowski (2006)
