Laurence D. Marks
Born
Laurence Daniel Marks

1954 (age 69–70)[2]
Barnet, London, England
NationalityAmerican and British
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Known forMarks decahedron
Surface science
Electron microscopy
AwardsICSOS Surface Structure Prize (2017)

Warren Award (2015)

Burton Medal (MSA, 1989)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials Science and Engineering
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Thesis The Structure of Small Silver Particles  (1980)
Doctoral studentsPulickel Ajayan (1989)[1]
Websitewww.numis.northwestern.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Laurence Daniel Marks is an American professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. He has contributed to the study of nanoparticles and worked in the fields of electron microscopy, diffraction, and crystallography.

Early life and education

Marks attended Trinity School of John Whitgift in Croydon; he played chess competitively for the school and won the British Chess Championship Under 21 in 1973.[3][4]

Marks attended King's College at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1976 with a B.A. in chemistry.[5] From 1976 to 1980, he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. where he worked with Archibald Howie on electron microscopy and the structure of metal crystals.[6][2][7] He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge in 1980.[5] His dissertation topic was The Structure of Small Silver Particles.[2][8]

Career

From 1980 to 1983, Marks was a post-doctoral research assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory.[2] From 1983 to 1985, he was a post-doctoral research assistant with the Department of Physics at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.[2] He studied nanotwinning, leading toward a way to directly image the atomic scale of nano-surfaces.[9]

Marks Decahedron

In March 1985, Marks joined the faculty of Northwestern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering.[2] He received a Sloan Research Fellowship for physics in 1987.[10][11] One of his early research efforts led to the discovery of a type of nanoparticle now known as the Marks decahedron.[12][9]

Marks was promoted to professor in June 1992.[2] In 2019, he was a senior visiting scientist with the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).[9] In July 2023, Marks was selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program that allowed him to study triboelecticity in Australia.[12][13] As of September 2023, Marks is an emeritus professor at Northwestern University.[14]

Awards and honors

In 1989, Marks received the Burton Award from the Microscopy Society of America for achievements in the fields of microscopy and microanalysis by a scientist under 40 years of age.[15][7] He received the Bertram E. Warren Award from the American Crystallographic Association in 2015[16][7] and the International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces Prize in 2017.[17]

Marks was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, for his "contributions to quantitative imaging and diffraction methods for determining the atomic structure of surfaces and bulk materials",[18] and a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America in 2017.[19]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "UQ Profile" (PDF). UQ. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Curriculum vitae — Laurence Daniel Marks" (PDF). Northwestern University. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 23, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "British Champions 1904 – present". The English Chess Federation. Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  4. ^ The British Chess Magazine. Vol. 86. Trubner & Company. 1966. p. 45 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b "L. D. Marks". Applied Physics Graduate Program - Northwestern University. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  6. ^ Marks, L. D.; Howie, A. (1979). "Multiply-twinned particles in silver catalysts" (PDF). Nature. 282 (5735): 196. Bibcode:1979Natur.282..196M. doi:10.1038/282196a0. S2CID 4256301.
  7. ^ a b c "What's On the Cover" (PDF). ACA RefleXions: American Crystallographic Association Matters (2): 17. Summer 2015.
  8. ^ Marks, Laurence Daniel (1980). The structure of small silver particles (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. (Full text)
  9. ^ a b c "Professor Laurence Marks from Northwestern University of USA Visits SINANO". Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics,Chinese Academy of Sciences. August 2, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  10. ^ "Fellows Database". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  11. ^ "Sloan Foundation Awards 90 Grants". The New York Times. April 19, 1987. p. 1.42. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  12. ^ a b Fellman, Megan (July 27, 2023). "Laurence Marks Receives Fulbright Award". Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  13. ^ "Laurence Marks". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  14. ^ "2023 Commencement Program" (PDF). Northwestern University.
  15. ^ "Society Awards Recipients By Year". Microscopy Society of America. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  16. ^ "2015 Award Winners". American Crystallographic Association. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  17. ^ "ICSOS Prize winners". International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS). Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  18. ^ "APS Fellow Archive (M)". American Physical Society. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  19. ^ "MSA Fellows". Microscopy Society of America. Retrieved October 14, 2023.

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