{"65009":{"#nid":"65009","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Georgia Tech Faculty Listed Among Top Chemists and Material Scientists of the Decade","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomson-Reuters has included two Georgia Tech faculty\nmembers, Mostafa El-Sayed and Jean-Luc Bredas, in its lists of top scientists\nof the decade. In fact, both professors hail from the School of Chemistry and\nBiochemistry in the College of Sciences. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEl-Sayed was listed as number 17 in Thomson-Reuters listing\nof the top chemists of the past decade. The ranking covers the time period from\nJanuary 2000 to October 2010. In that time, El-Sayed published 111 papers in\nchemistry journals with 10,135 citations. The list also rates the number of\ncitations per paper as a way to measure scientists\u2019 impact on the field, and\nEl-Sayed received 91.31 in this category.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEl-Sayed was presented with the U.S. National Medal of\nScience in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush. His citation reads: \u201cfor his seminal and creative\ncontributions to our understanding of the electronic and optical properties of\nnano-materials and to their applications in nano-catalysis and nano-medicine,\nfor his humanitarian efforts of exchange among countries and for his role in\ndeveloping the scientific leadership of tomorrow.\u201d\nIn the following year, he was listed among the 100 most influential people in\nthe state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt\nGeorgia Tech, El-Sayed is the director of the Laser Dynamics Laboratory. His\nlab studies the conversion of electronic energy in a wide variety of\nstructures such as semiconductors (quantum dots) and metallic\nnanostructures.\nAmong his most promising current areas of research are using lasers and gold\nnanorods to fight cancerous tumors under the skin. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEl-Sayed\ncame to Georgia Tech in 1994 and is currently the Julius Brown Chair and\nRegents\u2019 Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He was on the faculty at the\nUniversity of California at Los Angeles from 1961-94. He earned his doctorate\nfrom Florida State University and his bachelor\u2019s degree from Ain Shams\nUniversity in Egypt. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJean-Luc\nBredas was listed as number 84 in Thomson-Reuters listing of the top materials\nscientists of the past decade. In that time, Bredas published 50 papers in\nmaterials science journals with 2,177 citations and an impact factor of 43.54. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBredas\nwas a member of the team that received the Descartes Prize of the European\nUnion in 2003. He was awarded the Quinquennial Prize of the National Fund for\nScientific Research in Belgium in 2000 and the Francqui Prize in 1997.\u0026nbsp; In 2010, he received the Charles H. Stone\nAward of the American Chemical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt\nGeorgia Tech, Bredas is a member of the Center for Organic Photonics and\nElectronics (for which he is in charge of international relations) and a\nco-director of the Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology.\nHis work seeks to uncover the chemical and physical properties of novel organic\nmaterials and includes research on organic solar cells as well as organic\nlight-emitting diodes for potential use in visual displays and lighting. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBredas\nis a Regents\u2019 Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech. He is\nalso a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and the Vasser Woolley and\nGeorgia Research Alliance Chair in Molecular Design. He holds an extraordinary\nprofessorship at the University of Mons in Belgium and an honorary\nprofessorship at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences\nin Beijing. Bredas came to Tech in 2003 from the University of Arizona. He\nearned his doctoral and bachelor\u2019s degrees from the University of Namur in\nBelgium.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMostafa El-Sayed and Jean-Luc Bredas, both faculty in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Sciences, were each named as one of the top scientists of the past decade by Thomson-Reuters.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mostafa El-Sayed and Jean-Luc Bredas honored by Thomson-Reuters."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2011-03-17 13:43:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:22","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39888":{"id":"39888","type":"image","title":"Mostafa El-Sayed","body":null,"created":"1449174126","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:06","changed":"1475894244","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:24"},"40107":{"id":"40107","type":"image","title":"Jean-Luc Bredas","body":null,"created":"1449174146","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:26","changed":"1475894226","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:06","alt":"Jean-Luc Bredas","file":{"fid":"189590","name":"Photos-Feb08-013.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Photos-Feb08-013.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Photos-Feb08-013.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":194856,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Photos-Feb08-013.jpg?itok=i4GkxdcS"}}},"media_ids":["39888","40107"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"12405","name":"jean-luc bredas"},{"id":"12406","name":"mostafa el-sayed"},{"id":"12408","name":"reuters"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"},{"id":"12407","name":"thomson-reuters"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}