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 work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization.^[1] His lab also pioneered the development of peptide self-replication.^[2]

Awards

• Searle Scholars Award 1991-1994;
• Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Award, 1991-1993;^[3]
• 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