Chad Mirkin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chad Mirkin
Occupation	Chemist
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1963(1963-11-23)
Age	61
Birthplace	Phoenix
Country	United States
Birth City	Arizona
Horoscope	Scorpio

Chad Mirkin Biography

Chad Mirkin is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on November 23, 1963 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Mirkin was born on November 23 1963 located in Phoenix, Arizona. Mirkin earned his B.S. diploma at Dickinson College in 1986 and earned his PhD in the same year from Penn State University in 1989. In 1989, he received an NSF postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where was working alongside professor Mark S. Wrighton on microelectrode-based electrocatalyst devices. He was appointed an associate professor of electrocatalysis at Northwestern University in 1991.

Mirkin was delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2011 Summit (Honolulu) along with the leaders of the world like the president Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and representatives from Fortune 500 companies. At APEC Mirkin also served as a panelist with Chile’s president Chile, Sebastian Pinera Echenique which was focused on “Game Changing Technology Redefining the Region.”

Mirkin served on several editorial advisory boards, including ACS Nano, the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie. He is the founding editor of the nanotechnology journal Small, and he is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Mirkin is a co-founder of multiple companies, including NanoInk , Nanosphere (acquired by Luminex for $83M in 2016 ), AuraSense, Azul 3D, TERA-print, and Exicure (XCUR:NASDAQ).

Mirkin is known for his development of nanoparticle-based biodetection schemes, the invention of dip-pen nanolithography (recognized by National Geographic as one of the top 100 scientific discoveries that changed the world), and contributions to supramolecular chemistry, nanoelectronics, and nanooptics. In 2010, he was listed as the most cited chemist in the world over the last decade in terms of total citations, the second highest most cited chemist in terms of impact factor, and the top most cited nanomedicine researcher. He was the first chemist to be elected into all three branches of the National Academies. He has published over 780 manuscripts (Google Scholar H-index = 172) and has over 1200 patents and patent applications (over 360 issued, over 80% licensed as of December 1, 2019). These discoveries and innovations have led to over 10 different product lines and over 2000 commercial products that are being used worldwide.

In the course of his research and academic work, Mirkin has been involved in the development of science policy. From 2009 until 2017 Mirkin was named to President Barack Obama’s Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Chad Mirkin Net Worth

Chad Mirkin is one of the richest Chemist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chad Mirkin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23rd in 1963) is a famous American chemical engineer from the United States. The chemist is George B. Rathmann professor of Chemistry, professor of Medicine as well as a professor of materials science and engineering as well as a professor of biomedical engineering and professor of biological and chemical engineering. He is also the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University.

A typical strategy employed by Mirkin’s team is to make use of the distinctive characteristics of spherical nuclear acids (SNAs) and spherical arrangement of nucleic acid with or without organic or inorganic nanoparticles as cores, which allow for the synthesis of new colloidal crystals and materials and the creation of high-sensitivity probes for medical and chemical diagnostics and single-entity structures that are that can regulate intracellular genes. The work he did in 1996 with SNA-gold nanoparticles and their conjugates established the concept of a nanoparticle acting as an atom as well as nucleic acid bonds, and set the stage for research for the fields of colloidal crystal engineering using molecular diagnostics and DNA based on well-defined nanoparticles and nanocrystal bioconjugates. SNAs are the foundation of the FDA-approved Luminex Verigene system (now employed in more than fifty percent of the world’s most prestigious hospitals) as well as the EMD Millipore SmartFlare platform (now available through AuraSense following the acquisition of Millipore was purchased by Sigma-Aldrich) as well as four of the drugs used that are being tested in human clinical trials. Additionally the inventions of DPN, Polymer Pen Lithography (PPL) as well as Beam Pen Lithography (BPL) serve as the foundation for the TERA-fab and E series of commercial patterning tools that are referred to as desktop fabs (TERA-print LLC).

The focus of his research is on developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 – 100 nm length scale and utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools that can be used in the areas of chemical and biological sensing, lithography, catalysis, and optics. Mirkin has pioneered the use of DNA and nanoparticles as synthons in materials science and the development of nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics.

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Chad Ranked on the list of most popular Chemist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chad Mirkin celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.