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Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, known as the "Queen of Carbon Science", was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist. She was an Institute Professor and professor of both physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also served as the president of the American Physical Society, the chair of the American Association for the Advancement of…
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science · American physicist and nanotechnologist (1930–2017) · physicist · engineer · university teacher · also Mildred Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Millie Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus
Born 11 November 1930 · Died 20 February 2017 · Q29573
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors created the IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal, awarded annually "for outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great i
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2017).
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Died 2017-02-20.
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Won IEEE Medal of Honor (2015).
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Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (2015).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2014).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2014).
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Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014
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Awarded Von Hippel Award (2013).
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Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (2012).
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Awarded Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2012).
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Was co-recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, along with Burton Richter, and was awarded the Kavli Prize "for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in
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Awarded ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2010).
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Awarded Vannevar Bush Award (2009).
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Published “Raman spectroscopy in graphene” in Physics Reports — cited 5,569 times.
Published “Large Area, Few-Layer Graphene Films on Arbitrary Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition” in Nano Letters — cited 5,340 times.
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2008).
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Won Oersted Medal (2008).
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Published “High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys” in Science — cited 5,317 times.
Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2007).
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Published “Studying disorder in graphite-based systems by Raman spectroscopy” in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. — cited 4,344 times.
Published “New Directions for Low‐Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials” in Advanced Materials — cited 3,798 times.
Awarded Harold Pender Award (2006).
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Awarded Heinz Award (2005).
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Published “Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes” in Physics Reports — cited 4,013 times.
Was awarded the 11th Annual Heinz Award in the category of Technology, the Economy and Employment
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Won IEEE Founders Medal (2004).
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Won Carbon Medal (2001).
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Published “Alternative energy technologies” in Nature — cited 4,697 times.
Awarded Weizmann Women & Science Award (2000).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1999).
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Won Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach (1999).
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Awarded Women in Technology Hall of Fame (1998).
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Published “Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes” — cited 5,763 times.
Published “Edge state in graphene ribbons: Nanometer size effect and edge shape dependence” in Physical Review B — cited 3,925 times.
Dresselhaus was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science (now Chancellor of Berkeley) Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight
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Published “Effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit” in Physical Review B — cited 3,559 times.
Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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In recognition of her work on electronic properties of materials as well as expanding the opportunities of women in science and engineering
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Was appointed the first female institute professor at MIT
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Awarded Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1977).
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Dresselhaus and a colleague organized the first Women's Forum at MIT as a seminar exploring the roles of women in science and engineering
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Became a tenured faculty member in 1968, and became a professor of physics in 1983
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Studied at University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy (1958).
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Where she studied under Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi
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She remarried in 1958 to Gene Dresselhaus who became a well known theoretician and discoverer of the Dresselhaus effect.
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To Gene Dresselhaus who became a well known theoretician and discoverer of the Dresselhaus effect
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Published “Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects in Zinc Blende Structures” in Physical Review — cited 3,440 times.
In Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Ethel (Teichtheil) and Meyer Spiewak, who were Polish Jewish immigrants
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Born 1930-11-11.
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