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]
Kumar Wickramasinghe | |
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| Born | Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe |
| Alma mater | King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Scanning thermal microscopy |
| 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 |
Education
editHe 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]
Career and research
editHe 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.
Personal life
editHe is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.
References
edit- ^ a b Kumar Wickramasinghe publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "H. Kumar Wickramasinghe". Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ Wickramasinghe, H. Kumar (1974). Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 500588924. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.477197.
- ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE: H. Kumar Wickramasinghe" (PDF). Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Kumar Wickramasinghe". Royal Society. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
