American physicist
Mildred Dresselhaus
[1] (
née Spiewak ; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017),
[2] known as the "Queen of Carbon Science",
[3] was an American
physicist ,
materials scientist , and
nanotechnologist . She was an
institute professor and professor of both physics and electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
[4] She also served as the president of the
American Physical Society , the chair of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science , as well as the director of science in the US
Department of Energy under the
Bill Clinton Government.
[4] Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom , the
National Medal of Science , the
Enrico Fermi Award , the
Kavli Prize and the
Vannevar Bush Award .
Early life and education
Dresselhaus was born on November 11, 1930, in
Brooklyn , New York City, the daughter of Ethel (Teichtheil) and Meyer Spiewak, who were Polish Jewish immigrants.
[5] Her family was heavily affected by the
Great Depression so from a young age Dresselhaus helped provide income for the family by doing piecework assembly tasks at home and by working in a zipper factory during the summer.
[6]
[7] As a grade school student, Dresselhaus' first 'teaching job' was tutoring a special-needs student for fifty cents a week, and she learned how to be a good teacher.
[7]
Dresselhaus credited New York's free museums, including the
American Museum of Natural History and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art , with sparking her interest in science.
[6] She and her brother, Irving Spiewak, were scholarship students at the
Greenwich House Music School which introduced her to a different world of musical, artistic and intellectual leanings.
[7]
Dresselhaus was raised and attended grade school in the
Bronx . Her older brother informed her of the opportunity to apply to
Hunter College High School , where she excelled and gained practice as a teacher by tutoring fellow students.
[6]
Experience at Hunter College
Dresselhaus attended
Hunter College in New York. Traditionally a women's college, during Dresselhaus's time as a student there, Hunter College's Bronx campus opened itself to a flood of male
G.I. Bill beneficiaries.
[8] Dresselhaus later explained:
The boys in the science classes were toward the bottom of the class... They always used to come to me for help.... That might be somewhat significant in my story, because I never got the idea in college that science was a man's profession.
[9]
While attending Hunter, one of her professors, and future Nobel-Prize-winner
Rosalyn Yalow took interest in Dresselhaus and encouraged her to apply for graduate fellowships and pursue a career in physics. Dresselhaus graduated with her undergraduate degree in liberal arts in 1951.
[2]
[6]
After College
She carried out postgraduate study at the
University of Cambridge on a
Fulbright Fellowship and received her MA from
Radcliffe College . She received a PhD from the
University of Chicago in 1958 where she studied under Nobel laureate
Enrico Fermi .
[10] She then spent two years at
Cornell University as a postdoc before moving to
Lincoln Lab as a staff member.
Career and legacy
Dresselhaus had a 57-year career at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
[11] She became the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Visiting Professor of electrical engineering at MIT in 1967, became a tenured faculty member in 1968, and became a professor of physics in 1983. In 1985, she was appointed the first female
institute professor at MIT. In 1994, Dresselhaus was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science (now Chancellor of Berkeley) Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
As the exotic compounds she studied became increasingly relevant to modern science and engineering, she was uniquely positioned to become a world-leading expert and write one of the standard textbooks.
[16]
Her groundwork in the field led to
Andre Geim and
Konstantin Novoselov isolating and characterizing graphene, for which they were awarded the
2010 Nobel Prize .
[6]
Dresselhaus was awarded the
National Medal of Science in 1990 in recognition of her work on electronic properties of materials as well as expanding the opportunities of women in science and engineering.
[17]
[18] In 2005 she was awarded the 11th Annual
Heinz Award in the category of Technology, the Economy and Employment.
[19] In 2008, she was awarded the
Oersted Medal . In 2012, she was co-recipient of the
Enrico Fermi Award , along with
Burton Richter ,
[20] and was awarded the
Kavli Prize
[3] "for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures."
[21] In 2014, she was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
[22] and was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
[23] In 2015, she received the
IEEE Medal of Honor .
In 2000–2001, she was the director of the Office of Science at the
U.S. Department of Energy . From 2003 to 2008, she was the chair of the governing board of the
American Institute of Physics . She also has served as president of the
American Physical Society (APS), the first female president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science , and treasurer of the
National Academy of Sciences .
Her former students include such notable materials scientists as
Deborah Chung ,
[24] and physicists as
Nai-Chang Yeh and
Greg Timp .
President
Barack Obama greets Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, third from right, and Dr.
Burton Richter , right, May 7, 2012.
There are several physical theories named after Dresselhaus. The
Hicks-Dresselhaus Model (
L. D. Hicks and Dresselhaus)
[25] is the first basic model for low-dimensional thermoelectrics, which initiated the whole band field. The Saito-Fujita-Dresselhaus Model (
Riichiro Saito ,
Mitsutaka Fujita ,
Gene Dresselhaus , and Mildred Dresselhaus)
[26] first predicted the band structures of carbon nanotubes. The
Dresselhaus effect refers, however, to the
spin–orbit interaction effect modeled by
Gene Dresselhaus , Mildred Dresselhaus's husband.
Dresselhaus devoted a great deal of time to supporting efforts to promote increased participation of women in physics. In 1971, Dresselhaus and a colleague organized the first Women's Forum at MIT as a seminar exploring the roles of women in science and engineering. In honor of her legacy, the APS created the Millie Dresselhaus Fund to support women in physics.
[27] Dresselhaus was the face of a 2017
General Electric television advertisement which asked the question "What if female scientists were celebrities?" aimed to increase the number of women in
STEM roles in its ranks.
[28]
In 2019, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors created the IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal, awarded annually "for outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest."
[29]
Oral history interview with Mildred Dresselhaus on the occasion of her winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. government, in 2014
Contributions to scientific knowledge
Dresselhaus was particularly noted for her work on
graphite , graphite
intercalation compounds,
fullerenes ,
carbon nanotubes , and low-dimensional
thermoelectrics . Her group made frequent use of electronic band structure,
Raman scattering and the
photophysics of carbon nanostructures .
[11] Her research helped develop technology based on thin graphite which allow electronics to be "everywhere", including clothing and
smartphones .
[11]
With the appearance of lasers in the 1960s, Dresselhaus started to use lasers for magneto-optics experiments, which later led to the creation of a new model for the electronic structure of graphite.
[30] A great part of her research dedicates to the study of 'buckyballs' and graphene focusing a great deal in the electrical properties of carbon nanotubes and enhancing thermoelectric properties of nanowires.
[31]
Personal life
Her first husband was physicist
Frederick Reif .
[32] She remarried in 1958 to
Gene Dresselhaus who became a well known theoretician and discoverer of the
Dresselhaus effect .
[33] They had four children – Marianne, Carl, Paul, and Eliot – and five grandchildren.
[11]
Honors and awards
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the
ETH Zurich , 2015
[34]
IEEE Medal of Honor , 2015 (first female recipient)
National Inventors Hall of Fame induction 2014
[35]
Presidential Medal of Freedom , 2014
[36]
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, 2013
[37]
Von Hippel Award,
Materials Research Society , 2013
[38]
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, 2012
Enrico Fermi Award (second female recipient), 2012
Vannevar Bush Award (second female recipient), 2009
ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences , 2009
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize , American Physical Society, 2008
Oersted Medal , 2007
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science , 2007
Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment, 2005
IEEE Founders Medal Recipients, 2004
Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics, American Institute of Physics, 2001
Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology, American Carbon Society, 2001
Honorary member of the
Ioffe Institute , Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000
National Materials Advancement Award of the Federation of Materials Societies, 2000
Honorary doctorate from the
Catholic University of Leuven , Belgium, February 2000
Nicholson Medal,
American Physical Society , March 2000
[39]
Weizmann Institute 's Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2000
SGL Carbon Award, American Carbon Society, 1997
Member of the
American Philosophical Society , 1995
[40]
National Medal of Science , 1990
Member of the
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 1985
[41]
Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1974
[42]
Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, 1977
Fellow,
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
[43]
Selected publications
Steinbeck, J.; Braunstein, G.; Speck, J.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Huang, C. Y.; Malvezzi, A. M.; Bloembergen, N. (1986).
"Analysis of Picosecond Pulsed Laser Melted Graphite" . MRS Proceedings . 74 . Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
doi :
10.1557/proc-74-263 .
ISSN
0272-9172 .
di Vittorio, S.L.; Dresselhaus, M.S.; Endo, M.; Issi, J-P.; Piraux, L. (July 1, 1990). The transport properties of activated carbon fibers (Report). Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
doi :
10.2172/6882792 .
Kuriyama, K.; Dresselhaus, M.S. (1991).
"Photoconductivity of activated carbon fibers" . Journal of Materials Research . 6 (5). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1040–1047.
Bibcode :
1991JMatR...6.1040K .
doi :
10.1557/jmr.1991.1040 .
ISSN
0884-2914 .
S2CID
94864974 .
Farmer, J.C.; Barbee, T.W. Jr.; Chapline, G.C. Jr.; Olsen, M.L.; Foreman, R.J.; Summers, L.J.; Dresselhaus, M.S.; Hicks, L.D. (January 20, 1995). Synthesis and evaluation of single layer, bilayer, and multilayer thermoelectric thin films (Report). Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
doi :
10.2172/93595 .
M. S. Dresselhaus & P. C. Eklund (2000).
"Phonons in carbon nanotubes" (PDF) .
Advances in Physics . 49 (6): 705.
Bibcode :
2000AdPhy..49..705D .
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.170.631 .
doi :
10.1080/000187300413184 .
S2CID
122447852 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
M. S. Dresselhaus; G. Samsonidze; S. G. Chou; G. Dresselhaus; J. Jiang; R. Saito & A. Jorio.
"Recent Advances in Carbon Nanotube Photo-physics" (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on July 2, 2006.
M. S. Dresselhaus & G. Dresselhaus (2002).
"Intercalation Compounds of Graphite" (PDF) .
Advances in Physics . 51 (1): 1.
Bibcode :
2002AdPhy..51....1D .
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.170.2655 .
doi :
10.1080/00018730110113644 .
S2CID
123597602 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Big Opportunities for Small Objects" .
Materials Today Magazine . 5 (11): 48.
doi :
10.1016/S1369-7021(02)01164-1 .
M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus and A. Jorio (2004).
"Unusual Properties and Structures of Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF) .
Annual Review of Materials Research . 34 (1): 247.
Bibcode :
2004AnRMS..34..247D .
doi :
10.1146/annurev.matsci.34.040203.114607 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 11, 2006.
M. S. Dresselhaus; G. Dresselhaus; R. Saito; A. Jorio (2005).
"Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF) .
Physics Reports . 409 (2): 47.
Bibcode :
2005PhR...409...47D .
doi :
10.1016/j.physrep.2004.10.006 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
M. S. Dresselhaus & H. Dai (2004).
"Carbon Nanotubes: Continued Innovations and Challenges" .
MRS Bulletin . 29 (4): 237.
doi :
10.1557/mrs2004.74 .
J. Heremans & M. S. Dresselhaus (2005).
"Low Dimensional Thermoelectricity" (PDF) . CRC Handbook - Molecular and Nano-electronics: Concepts, Challenges, and Designs . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
M. S. Dresselhaus, R. Saito and A. Jorio (2004).
"Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF) . Proceedings of ICPS-27 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
S. G. Chou; F. Plentz-Filho; J. Jiang; R. Saito; D. Nezich; H. B. Ribeiro; A. Jorio; M. A. Pimenta; G. Samsonidze; A. P. Santos; M. Zheng; G. B. Onoa; E. D. Semke; G. Dresselhaus; M. S. Dresselhaus (2005). "Photo-excited Electron Relaxation Process Observed in Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of DNA-wrapped Carbon Nanotube".
Physical Review Letters . 94 (12): 127402.
Bibcode :
2005PhRvL..94l7402C .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.127402 .
PMID
15903960 .
M. S. Dresselhaus (2004). "Nanotubes: a step in synthesis".
Nature Materials . 3 (10): 665–6.
Bibcode :
2004NatMa...3..665D .
doi :
10.1038/nmat1232 .
PMID
15467687 .
S2CID
29431916 .
M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Applied Physics: Nanotube Antennas" .
Nature Materials . 432 (7020): 959–60.
Bibcode :
2004Natur.432..959D .
doi :
10.1038/432959a .
PMID
15616541 .
S2CID
37208770 .
S. B. Fagan; A. G. Souza-Filho; J. Mendes-Filho; P. Corio; M. S. Dresselhaus (2005).
"Electronic Properties of Ag- and CrO3-filled Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF) .
Chemical Physics Letters . 406 (1–3): 54.
Bibcode :
2005CPL...406...54F .
doi :
10.1016/j.cplett.2005.02.091 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
Y. A. Kim; H. Muramatsu; T. Hayashi; M. Endo; M. Terrones; M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Thermal Stability and Structural Changes of Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Heat Treatment" (PDF) .
Chemical Physics Letters . 398 (1–3): 87.
Bibcode :
2004CPL...398...87K .
doi :
10.1016/j.cplett.2004.09.024 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
G. Samsonidze; R. Saito; N. Kobayashi; A. Gruneis; J. Jiang; A. Jorio; S. G. Chou; G. Dresselhaus; M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Family Behavior of the Optical Transition Energies in Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes of Smaller Diameters" (PDF) .
Applied Physics Letters . 85 (23): 5703.
Bibcode :
2004ApPhL..85.5703S .
doi :
10.1063/1.1829160 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 11, 2006.
S. G. Chou; H. B. Ribeiro; E. Barros; A. P. Santos; D. Nezich; G. Samsonidze; C. Fantini; M. A. Pimenta; A. Jorio; F. Pletz-Filho; M. S. Dresselhaus; G. Dresselhaus; R. Saito; M. Zheng; G. B. Onoa; E. D. Semke; A. K. Swan; B. B. Goldberg; M. S. Unlu (2004).
"Optical Characterization of DNA-wrapped Carbon Nanotube Hybrids" (PDF) .
Chemical Physics Letters . 397 (4–6): 296.
Bibcode :
2004CPL...397..296C .
doi :
10.1016/j.cplett.2004.08.117 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 11, 2006.
E. I. Rogacheva; O. N. Nashchekina; A. V. Meriuts; S. G. Lyubchenko; O. Vekhov; M. S. Dresselhaus; G. Dresselhaus (2005). "Quantum Size Effects in PbTe/SnTe/PbTe Heterostructures".
Applied Physics Letters . 86 (6): 063103.
Bibcode :
2005ApPhL..86f3103R .
doi :
10.1063/1.1862338 .
H. Son; Y. Hori; S. G. Chou; D. Nezich; G. Samsonidze; E. Barros; G. Dresselhaus; M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Environment Effects on the Raman Spectra of Individual Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes: Suspended and Grown on Polycrystalline Silicon" (PDF) .
Applied Physics Letters . 85 (20): 4744.
Bibcode :
2004ApPhL..85.4744S .
doi :
10.1063/1.1818739 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
C. Fantini; A. Jorio; M. Souza; A. J. Mai Jr.; M. S. Strano; M. A. Pimenta; M. S. Dresselhaus (2004).
"Optical Transition Energies and Radial Breathing Modes for HiPco Carbon Nanotubes from Raman Spectroscopy" (PDF) .
Physical Review Letters . 93 (14): 147406.
Bibcode :
2004PhRvL..93n7406F .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.147406 .
PMID
15524844 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 9, 2007.
S. B. Cronin; A. K. Swan; M. S. Unlu; B. B. Goldberg; M. S. Dresselhaus; M. Tinkham (2004).
"Measuring Uniaxial Strain in Individual Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes: Resonance Raman Spectra of AFM Modified SWNTs" (PDF) .
Physical Review Letters . 93 (16): 167401.
Bibcode :
2004PhRvL..93p7401C .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.167401 .
PMID
15525030 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 11, 2006.
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^
Mildred Dresselhaus was elected in 1974 as a member of
National Academy of Engineering in
Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Materials Engineering for contributions to the experimental studies of
metals and
semimetals , and to education.
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b MIT News Office (February 21, 2017).
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doi :
10.1002/andp.201900274 .
ISSN
0003-3804 .
S2CID
202945998 .
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1992PhRvB..46.1804S .
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0163-1829 .
PMID
10003828 .
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External links
Freeview video interview with Mildred Dresslhaus by the Vega Science Trust
Millie Dresselhaus Fund
Homepage
"Mildred Dresselhaus: 1930-2017" . American Physical Society . Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
Archive of Dresselhaus's MIT page
Schatz, George C.;
Scholes, Greg D. ; Stang, Peter J.; Burrows, Cindy J.; Winnick, Francoise M.; Alivisatos, A. Paul; Lieber, Charles M.; Weiss, Paul S.; Buriak, Jillian M. (June 27, 2017).
"Virtual Issue Celebrating the Life and Career of Mildred Dresselhaus" .
Chemistry of Materials . 29 (12): 5017–5018.
doi :
10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02398 .
ISSN
0897-4756 .
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