Mohammadreza Ghadiri

M. Reza Ghadiri is an Iranian-American chemist who studies nanoscale science and technology.

Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1987) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a Professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.

The 1998 Feynman Prize was awarded to Ghadiri for groundbreaking work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization, the same forces used to assemble the molecular machine systems found in nature.^[1] His lab also pioneered the development of non-enzymatic peptide self-replication.^[2]

Awards

• Searle Scholars Award 1991-1994;
• Arnold & Mable Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Award, 1991-1993;
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993-1995;
• Eli Lilly Grantee 1994-1995;
• ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 1995;
• Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society 1999;
• Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology 1998;
• Merck-Frosst Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia 2001;
• Belleau Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2001.

See also

• Iranian science

References

1. "1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology". Foresight Nanotech Institute. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
2. Lee, David H.; Granja, Juan R.; Martinez, Jose A.; Severin, Kay; Ghadiri, M. Reza (1996-08-08). "A self-replicating peptide". Nature 382 (6591): 525–528. doi:10.1038/382525a0.

External links

• Faculty profile at The Scripps Research Institute