M. Reza Ghadiri is an
Iranian-American
Iranian-Americans, also known as Persian-Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.
Most Iranian-Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Irani ...
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
who studies
nanoscale
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...
science and technology.
Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1987) from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...
. He is currently a Professor of chemistry at
The Scripps Research Institute
Scripps Research is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institute has over 170 laboratories employing 2,100 scientists, tec ...
.
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 challe ...
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 and disorder, order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spont ...
. 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 support 15 young faculty in biomedical research and chemistry at US universities and research centers. The goal of the award is to support to exceptional young scientists wh ...
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 ...
, 1991-1993;
*Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993-1995;
*Eli Lilly Grantee 1994-1995;
*
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
The American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society (ACS) "to recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women." "Young" me ...
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 197 ...
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)