Martin Pope, professor emeritus in chemistry at NYU, currently in his 90th year, is one of the founding fathers of the field of electronic processes in organic crystals. 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 announced last year.
New York University will host the International Davy Medal Symposium in Honor of Martin Pope, professor emeritus in chemistry at NYU, on Fri., Nov. 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]). 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 announced last year. 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.
Pope, currently in his 90th year, is one of the founding fathers of the field of electronic processes in organic crystals. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in electroluminescence-the conversion of electric energy directly into visible light. He also discovered a special photovoltaic effect that is important in the conversion of sunlight into electricity, as well as many of the experimental techniques used to study organic materials.
- WHAT: International Davy Medal Symposium in Honor of Martin Pope
- WHO: Martin Pope, NYU; Vladimir Agranovich, Russian Academy of Science; Christos Dimitrakopoulos, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center; Richard Friend, University of Cambridge; C. Daniel Frisbie, University of Minnesota; Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern University; Lewis J. Rothberg, University of Rochester; Ching Tang, University of Rochester; Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah
- WHEN: Fri., Nov. 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- WHERE: NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place])