Ralph Nuzzo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ralph Nuzzo

American chemist

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1954

Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey, United States

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ralph G.
Nuzzo, born February 23, 1954 in Paterson, New Jersey is an American chemist and professor.
Nuzzo is a prominent researcher in the chemistry of materials, including processes that occur at surfaces and interfaces.
His work has led to new techniques for fabricating and manipulating materials at the nano scale level, including functional device structures for microelectronics, optics and chemical sensing. Nuzzo was a pioneer in the development of methods of self-assembled monolayers that have led to entirely new areas of surface chemistry with important extensions into physics, biology and materials, and with numerous applications ranging from bio-sensors to advanced electronics.
His work has made important contributions to soft lithography - a low cost alternative to conventional photo-lithography for patterning circuits on microchips. Nuzzo co-authored the paper on the "use of principles of physical organic chemistry to create functional surfaces based on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)." The report is one of the "most highly cited papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society history.