Carbon Medal
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TheCarbon Medalis a medal of achievement incarbonscience and technology given by theAmerican Carbon Societyfor the "... outstanding contributions to the discovery of novel carbon products or processes."[1][2]
Awardees
[edit]The following have won the Carbon Medal:[citation needed]
- 1997Robert Curl(Rice University,co-discoverer of fullerene)
- 1997Harry Kroto(University of Sussex,co-discoverer of fullerene)
- 1997Richard Smalley(Rice University,co-discoverer of fullerene)
- 2001Mildred Dresselhaus(MIT,researcher of carbon nanotubes)
- 2004Donald S. Bethune(IBM research, researcher of single-walled carbon nanotubes)
- 2004Morinobu Endo(Shinshu University,one of the pioneers of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes synthesis)
- 2004Sumio Iijima(NEC,often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes)
- 2016Andre Geim(University of Manchester, co-inventor of graphene)
- 2016Konstantin Novoselov(University of Manchester, co-inventor of graphene)
References
[edit]- ^"Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology".The American Carbon Society. Archived fromthe originalon 2016-05-07.Retrieved2016-07-16.
- ^"Carbon Medal".The World Conference on Carbon 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 2016-07-14.Retrieved2016-07-17.