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Chad Mirkin

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chemist human inventor nanoscientist university professor

Chad Mirkin is an American chemist and nanotechnology pioneer known for inventing dip-pen nanolithography and developing spherical nucleic acids for biomedical applications.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chemist → human → inventor → nanoscientist → university professor →
awardReceived	ACS Award in Pure Chemistry → ACS Nano Lectureship Award → Dan David Prize → Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology → Linus Pauling Medal → NIH Director’s Pioneer Award → National Medal of Technology and Innovation → RSC Centenary Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
educatedAt	Dickinson College → Pennsylvania State University →
employer	Northwestern University →
fieldOfWork	chemical biology → chemistry → materials science → nanoscience → nanotechnology →
founded	AuraSense, LLC → Exicure, Inc. → Nanosphere, Inc. →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Barry K. Carpenter →
hasPatentOn	dip-pen nanolithography → spherical nucleic acids →
knownFor	DNA-functionalized nanoparticles → dip-pen nanolithography → nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics → nanoparticle-based gene regulation → nanoparticle-based therapeutics → scanometric detection methods → spherical nucleic acids →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → American Chemical Society → Materials Research Society → National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America → National Academy of Medicine of the United States of America → National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America →
name	Chad A. Mirkin →
notableStudent	Teri W. Odom → Younan Xia →
notableWork	development of nanoparticle-based diagnostic assays → development of spherical nucleic acid-based therapeutics →
occupation	chemist → inventor → university professor →
positionHeld	Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University → George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University → Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University → Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University → Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University → Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University →
researchInterest	biosensing → drug delivery → gene regulation → nanolithography → nanoparticle self-assembly →
workLocation	Evanston, Illinois →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lemelson-MIT Prize →	notableRecipient