Cees Dekker

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Full Name	Cees Dekker
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Apr 7, 1959(1959-04-07)
Age	65
Birthplace	Haren
Country	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Birth City	Haren
Horoscope	Taurus

Cees Dekker Biography

Cees Dekker is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on April 7, 1959 in Haren, Haren, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in Haren, Groningen in 1959, Dekker studied at University of Utrecht, where he received a PhD in Experimental Physics in 1988.

In 1993 he was appointed as Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. In the mid-1990s Dekker and his team achieved success with the discovery of the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, the first single- molecule transistor and other nanoscience.

Since 2000, Dekker has shifted the main focus of his work towards biophysics where he studies the properties of single biomolecules and cells using the tools of nanotechnology. This change of field was driven by his fascination for the remarkable functioning of biological molecular structures, as well as by the long-term perspective that many interesting discoveries can be expected in this field. Current lines of research in his biophysics group are in the areas of:

Dekker has been awarded a number of national and international prizes, including the 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize, the 2012 Nanoscience Prize, and the 2003 Spinozapremie. He also was granted an honorary doctorate from Hasselt University, Belgium.

Dekker started his research on single carbon nanotubes in 1993 when he set up a new line of research to study electrical transport through single organic molecules between nanoelectrodes. In 1996 a breakthrough was realized with carbon nanotubes. This was achieved in a collaboration with the group of Nobel laureate Richard Smalley. STM and nanolithography techniques were used to demonstrate that these nanotubes are quantum wires at the single-molecule level, with outstanding physical properties. Many new phenomena were discovered, and he and his research group established a leading position in this field of research. Dekker and his research group discovered new physics of nanotubes as well as explored the feasibility of molecular electronics. In 1998, they were the first to build a transistor based on a single nanotube molecule.

Cees Dekker Net Worth

Cees Dekker is one of the richest Physicist from Kingdom of the Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cees Dekker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cornelis “Cees” Dekker (born April 7, 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist, and Distinguished University Professor at the Technical University of Delft. He is known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and nanobiology.

In 1988 Dekker started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht; in these years he also worked in the United States as Visiting Researcher at IBM Research. It was during this period that Dekker carried out research on magnetic spin systems and on noise in superconductors and semiconductors.

In 1999 he was appointed to the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professorship, a chair for outstanding young scientists. In 2000, he was appointed in a regular full professorship in Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Delft. In 2007, he was appointed as a Distinguished University Professor at Delft. From 2010 to 2012, he was the inaugurating Chair of a new Department of Bionanoscience at the Delft University. Since 2010 Dekker also acts as the Director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft.

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Cees Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands. Cees Dekker celebrates birthday on April 7 of every year.

Top Facts about Cees Dekker

1. Cees Dekker is a Dutch physicist and nanotechnologist.
2. He was born on April 15, 1959 in The Hague, Netherlands.
3. Dekker is a professor of Molecular Biophysics at Delft University of Technology.
4. He has published over 300 scientific papers and received numerous awards.
5. Dekker’s research focuses on the physics of DNA and biomolecular systems.
6. In 1998, he invented the solid-state nanopore, which revolutionized DNA sequencing technology.
7. He co-founded Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2005 to commercialize his invention.
8. Dekker is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
9. He was awarded the Spinoza Prize in 2003 for his groundbreaking work in nanotechnology.
10. Dekker is also known for his efforts to promote science education and public engagement with science.