| Kumar WickramasingheFRS | |
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| Born | Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe |
| Alma mater | King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Scanning thermal microscopy |
| Awards | Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Scanning probe microscopy Nanotechnology Nanobiotechnology |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Thesis | Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Ash |
| Website | engineering |
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Education
He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.
Career and research
He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019. He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
Personal life
He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.
References
- ^ Kumar Wickramasinghe publications indexed by Google Scholar
- "H. Kumar Wickramasinghe". Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- Wickramasinghe, H. Kumar (1974). Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 500588924. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.477197.
- "CURRICULUM VITAE: H. Kumar Wickramasinghe" (PDF). Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- "Kumar Wickramasinghe". Royal Society. Retrieved 29 April 2019.