Adapted from this Berkeley Lab press release
Paul Alivisatos, a world-renowned chemist and president of the University of Chicago who served as director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) from 2009 to 2016 and was the Foundry’s Founding Director. He will receive the award January 10, 2025.
Alivisatos is a trailblazer in the field of nanoscience, the study of materials on the scale of billionths of a meter. The award honors his work “developing the foundational materials and physical chemistry to produce beneficial nanocrystals and polymers with controlled size, shape, connectivity, and topology that underpin energy-efficient technology, optical devices, and medical diagnostic technology.”
Read more in the full press release.
