Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin · Science & Medicine
Chemist known for nanotechnology and spherical nucleic acids
1963, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Phoenix, Arizona · Northwestern University, Illinois
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Mirkin is a chemist and nanoscientist who invented spherical nucleic acids — DNA arranged on nanoparticle surfaces — and pioneered dip-pen nanolithography, technologies now used in medical diagnostics and gene regulation. He directs Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology and holds hundreds of patents. He is listed among Jewish chemists in Jewish biographical references (Jinfo); public biographies do not otherwise detail his religious identity.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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Chemist known for nanotechnology and spherical nucleic acids
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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