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词条 James R. Heath
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  1. Early years

  2. Academic career

  3. Research

  4. Awards and honours

  5. References

  6. External links

James R. Heath (born 1962) is an American chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology.[1] Previous to this, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, after having moved from University of California Los Angeles.[2]

Early years

Heath graduated with a degree in Chemistry in 1984 from Baylor University in Texas where he was an active member of the NoZe Brotherhood. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics and Chemistry from Rice University in 1988.[2]

Academic career

From 1988 to 1991, he was a Miller Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown, New York.[3] He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1994 and became Professor of Chemistry in 1997. He founded the California NanoSystems Institute in 2000 and served as its Director until moving to become the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at Caltech.

Research

Heath's academic work has focused on quantum phase transitions and developed architectures, devices, and circuits for molecular electronics. More recently, his work has moved towards applying expertise in nanoscale and molecular systems to addressing problems in cancer and infectious diseases.

When Heath was a graduate student at Rice University, he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first C60 molecules and, ultimately, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three senior members of the collaboration: Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley of Rice University and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. This research is significant for the discovery of a new allotrope of carbon known as a fullerene. Other allotropes of carbon include graphite, diamond and graphene. James R. Heath's 1985 paper entitled "C60: Buckminsterfullerine", published with colleagues Harry Kroto, S. C. O’Brien, R. F. Curl, and R. E. Smalley, was honored by a Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award from the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, presented to Rice University in 2015.[4][5]

[6] The discovery of fullerenes was recognized in 2010 by the designation of a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society at the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.[7]

Heath is known for publishing an architecture demonstration of molecular computers, or moletronics. In moletronics, single molecules serve as switches, "quantum wires" a few atoms thick serve as wiring, and the hardware is synthesized chemically from the bottom up. It was published in the summer of 1999 by Heath, J. Fraser Stoddart (at the time at UCLA) and their collaborators in the journal Science.[8]

As of 2011, Heath's research has split into one area devoted to solid-state quantum physics, materials science, and surface science, with a slight focus on energy conversion and another working on applying synthetic chemistry and a systems perspective to fundamental biology and translational medicine - with a clear focus on oncology.

Awards and honours

Heath has received several awards and honours for his research.[9] He was awarded the 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. He became a fellow of American Physical Society in 1999.[10] In 2009, Heath was named one of the seven most powerful innovators of the world by Forbes magazine.[11]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=ISB Appoints James Heath as President|url=https://www.systemsbiology.org/news/2017/04/03/institute-systems-biology-recruits-technology-pioneer-james-heath-president/|website=ISB|accessdate=3 April 2017}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|title=James R. Heath|url=https://www.cce.caltech.edu/content/james-r-heath|website=Caltech|accessdate=19 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309014651/https://www.cce.caltech.edu/content/james-r-heath|archive-date=2016-03-09|dead-url=yes|df=}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Academies|first1=Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National|title=Reducing the time from basic research to innovation in the chemical sciences : a workshop report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable|date=2003|publisher=National Academies Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=0-309-08734-1|page=56|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq_wfBemQdUC&pg=PA56}}
4. ^{{cite web|title= 2015 Awardees|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2015_Awardees.php|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2015|accessdate=1 July 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/Citations/2015-Kroto%20plaque.pdf|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2015|accessdate=1 July 2016}}
6. ^{{cite journal|last1=Kroto|first1=H. W.|last2=Heath|first2=J. R.|last3=O'Brien|first3=S. C.|last4=Curl|first4=R. F.|last5=Smalley|first5=R. E.|title=C60: Buckminsterfullerene|journal=Nature|date=14 November 1985|volume=318|issue=6042|pages=162–163|doi=10.1038/318162a0|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v318/n6042/abs/318162a0.html}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Discovery of Fullerenes National Historic Chemical Landmark|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/fullerenes.html|website=American Chemical Society|accessdate=18 July 2016}}
8. ^{{cite journal|last1=Collier|first1=C. P.|first2=E.W. |last2=Wong|first3= M. |last3=Belohradsky|first4= F.J. |last4=Raymo|first5= J.F. |last5=Stoddart|first6= P.J. |last6=Kuekes|first7= R.S. |last7=Williams|first8= J.R. |last8=Heath|title=Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates|journal=Science|date=16 July 1999|volume=285|issue=5426|pages=391–394|doi=10.1126/science.285.5426.391|url=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.474.5740&rep=rep1&type=pdf|accessdate=19 July 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=James R. Heath|url=http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/heath/|website=UCLA|accessdate=19 July 2016}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=H|website=APS Physics|accessdate=19 July 2016}}
11. ^{{cite news|last1=Harper|first1=Matthew|title=The Great Reaction|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1130/power-09-worlds-powerful-people-barry-sharpless-great-reaction.html|accessdate=19 July 2016|work=Forbes|date=November 12, 2009}}

External links

  • Research webpage of James R. Heath
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