Jean-Luc Brédas
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Jean-Luc Brédas [1] is a Belgian chemist and professor at Georgia Tech in the United States. He studied chemistry and obtained a PhD at the University of Namur, Belgium (B.S. 1976; PhD, 1979). His research deals with the structural, electronic, and optical properties of novel organic (nano) materials with promising characteristics in the field of electronics, photonics, and information technology.
Jean-Luc Brédas is among the top 100 most cited chemists in the world, and is included in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers for Chemistry [2]. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America. In 1997, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. He received the Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Science Foundation in 2000 (in French: FNRS, in Dutch: NFWO) [3].
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