NYU Hosts Symposium on Molecular Semiconductors in Honor of Martin Pope

NYU recently hosted the International Davy Medal Symposium in honor of Martin Pope, professor emeritus in chemistry at NYU. Pope was awarded the 2006 Davy Medal by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society for “his pioneering work in the field of molecular semiconductors, which has now become a large and important area of semiconductor science and technology,” the society stated. The Davy Medal, established in 1877, is awarded annually for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, Pierre and Marie Curie, Henri le Chatelier, and Linus Pauling are previous Davy Medal winners. Pictured at right is Pope, left, with Vladimir Agranovich, head of the theoretical physics department at the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Spectroscopy