Nuh Gedik, MIT’s Donner Professor of Physics, has been named a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator by the Brown Institute for Fundamental Sciences at Caltech.
Considered one of eight awarded mid-career college engaged on elementary challenges within the bodily sciences, Gedik will obtain as much as $2 million over 5 years.
Gedik will use the award to develop a brand new form of microscopy that photos electrons photo-emitted from a floor whereas additionally measuring their vitality and momentum. This microscope will make femtosecond films of electrons to check the fascinating properties of two-dimensional quantum supplies.
One other awardee, professor of physics Andrea Younger on the College of California Santa Barbara, was a 2011-14 Pappalardo Fellow at MIT in experimental condensed matter physics.
The Brown Institute for Fundamental Sciences at Caltech was established in 2023 by way of a $400-million present from entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Caltech alumnus Ross M. Brown, to assist elementary analysis in chemistry and physics. Initially created because the Investigator Awards in 2020, the award helps the assumption that “scientific discovery is a driving drive within the enchancment of the human situation,” in line with a information launch from the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
A complete of 13 investigators had been acknowledged in this system’s first three years. Now that the Brown Investigator Award has discovered a long-term dwelling at Caltech, the intent is to acknowledge a minimal of eight investigators every year.
Different earlier awardees with MIT connections embrace MIT professor of chemistry Mircea Dincă in addition to physics alumni Waseem S. Bakr ’05, ’06, MNG ’06 of Princeton College; David Hsieh of Caltech, who’s one other former Pappalardo Fellow; MuniraKhalil PhD ’04 and Mark Rudner PhD ’08 of the College of Washington; and Tanya Zelevinsky ’99 of Columbia College.
