Charles M. Lieber
The Power List 2013
Charles M. Lieber
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Highlight: “Making groundbreaking advances in the synthesis, characterization and assembly of semiconductor nanowires, and pioneering their applications in nanomedicine through the creation of nanoelectronic biosensors and cell interfaces that blur the distinction between digital electronics and living systems.”
Research: Nanoscale science and technology, using novel synthesized building blocks to push scientific boundaries in diverse areas from biology/medicine to energy and computing.