Phaedon Avouris
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Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) is a Greek chemist at IBM. He is an IBM Fellow and the manager for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 2005 he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.
[edit] Awards and honors
- 1999 Feynman Prize (Experimental) by the Foresight Nanotech Institute.[1] *2003 Irving Langmuir Prize by the American Physical Society. This prize is awarded based on contributions in chemistry and physics, and honours Irving Langmuir.
- 2005 elected a member of the Academy of Athens.
- 1997 Medard W. Welch Award "For his seminal contributions to the understanding of the chemistry of semiconductor surfaces and for his development of the STM as a tool for probing and inducing surface chemical reactions with atomic scale resolution and control."
