Biography:Anvar Zakhidov

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Short description: Uzbek-American physicist

Anvar Abdulakhadovich Zakhidov (Russian: Анвар Абдулахадович Захидов; born 2 May 1953) is an Uzbek-American physicist from the University of Texas at Dallas.[1]

Career

Born in Tashkent, he worked on superconductors in Japan for five years before immigrating to the United States in 1997, where he joined Honeywell in the private sector.[2] He was installed for his pioneering contributions to the design, fabrication, characterization, and understanding of advanced functional nanomaterials and associated devices, including carbon nanotubes; superconducting and magnetic fullerenes; photonic crystals; solar cells; OLEDs; and cold field emission cathodes.

Awards and recognition

He was awarded the status of Fellow[3] in the American Physical Society[4] after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 2009.[5]

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