FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽December 19, 2016
An interview with 2016 Priestley medalist Mostafa El-Sayed (video)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2016 鈥� It鈥檚 difficult to sum up Mostafa El-Sayed's nearly 60-year career as a chemist in just a few sentences. He uses lasers and other tools to better understand the properties and behavior of molecules and the nanoscale world. He is a pioneer in the use of nanomedicine to fight cancer. He even has a spectroscopy rule named after him: the 鈥淓l-Sayed rule.鈥澛燜or all of these reasons and more, El-Sayed received the Priestley Medal in 2016, the highest honor given by the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网. His work is the focus of the latest episode of ACS鈥� Prized Science聽series, available here: .
鈥⒙犅� 聽The series also highlights the work of Carol A. Fierke, who discusses the importance of mentors for women in STEM in this video: .
鈥⒙犅� 聽An infographic on Annie Kersting's research on nanoparticle contamination is also available at the following link: .
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