Chad Mirkin

Chad Mirkin Alexander ( born November 23, 1963 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American chemist.

Life

Mirkin acquired in 1986 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1989 and a Ph.D. in inorganic and organic chemistry at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since 1991, Mirkin is Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, first as an Assistant Professor, and since 1995 as an associate professor. In 1997 he received his first full professor (Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry ), in 2000, he was George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry. From 2000 to 2004 he was director of the Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self- Assembly, since 2004 he is Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and holds additional professorships in medicine and materials science, since 2008 also for chemical and biological engineering.

Work

Mirkin is a pioneer in the development of nanoparticle-based biosensors and the dip-pen nanolithography (dip - pen = pen holder, nanolithography ) and has made ​​important contributions to supramolecular chemistry, nanoelectronics and nano-optics.

He founded several biotechnology companies: Nanosphere, NanoInk, AuraSense and AuraSense Therapeutics.

Mirkin has published more than 500 scientific publications, eleven of them (as of October 2013) have been cited more than 1000 times, a work almost 3000 times. Since 2013 it is one of Thomson Reuters due to the number of its citations to favorites to a Nobel Prize (Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).

Awards (selection)

Writings (selection )

  • Christof M. Niemeyer, Chad A. Mirkin: Nanobiotechnology. 2004 ISBN 9783527306589
  • Chad A. Mirkin, Christof M. Niemeyer: Nanobiotechnology II: More Concepts and Application. 2007 ISBN 9783527316731
  • Mihail C. Roco, Chad A. Mirkin, Mark C. Hersam: Nanotechnology Research Directions for Societal Needs in 2020 2011 ISBN 9789400711679.
Phoenix (Arizona) Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Cambridge (Massachusetts) Dip pen ACS Award in pure chemistry American Chemical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology Foresight Institute Sackler Prize National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences Linus Pauling Award Digital Object Identifier
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