Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus · Science & Medicine
Physicist known as the 'queen of carbon science' for carbon nanomaterials
1930, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Dresselhaus, an MIT physicist known as the 'Queen of Carbon Science,' transformed understanding of the electronic properties of carbon and laid groundwork for carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and graphene. She received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Kavli Prize. Born to Polish Jewish immigrant parents in the Bronx, she was Jewish.
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Physicist known as the 'queen of carbon science' for carbon nanomaterials
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