Phaedon Avouris

Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) is a Greek chemist at IBM. He is an IBM Fellow and the manager for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 2005 he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.

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In 1999 he was awarded the Feynman Prize (Experimental) by the Foresight Nanotech Institute.[1] In 2003 he was awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize by the American Physical Society. This prize is awarded based on contributions in chemistry and physics, and honours Irving Langmuir.

Dr. Avouris was elected a member of the Academy of Athens on March 10, 2005.