Kumar Wickramasinghe | |
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Born | Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe |
Alma mater | King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD) |
Awards | Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Scanning probe microscopy Nanotechnology Nanobiotechnology [1] |
Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
Thesis | Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Ash |
Website | engineering |
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. [1] [2]
He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD [3] in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash. [4]
He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019. [5] He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.
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