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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.

cmliris.harvard.edu

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Part of the Power List 2013

100 most influential people

That’s the question we posed to ourselves – and then to you – over two months ago, ahead of open nominations and a painstaking judging process. Here, without further ado, we celebrate the answer.

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