Laurence D. Marks Explained

Laurence D. Marks
Birth Place:Barnet, London, England
Birth Name:Laurence Daniel Marks
Nationality:American and British
Thesis Title:The Structure of Small Silver Particles
Field:Materials Science and Engineering
Work Institution:Northwestern University
Education:University of Cambridge
Thesis Year:1980
Doctoral Students:Pulickel Ajayan (1989)[1]
Known For:Marks decahedron
Surface science
Electron microscopy
Awards:ICSOS Surface Structure Prize (2017)Warren Award (2015)Burton Medal (MSA, 1989)

Laurence Daniel Marks is an American emeritus 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.[2] [3]

Marks attended King's College at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1976 with a B.A. in chemistry.[4] 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.[5] [6] He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge in 1980. His dissertation topic was The Structure of Small Silver Particles.[7] [8]

Career

From 1980 to 1983, Marks was a post-doctoral research assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory. From 1983 to 1985, he was a post-doctoral research assistant with the Department of Physics at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He studied nanotwinning, leading toward a way to directly image the atomic scale of nano-surfaces.[9] In March 1985, Marks joined the faculty of Northwestern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. 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.

Marks was promoted to professor in June 1992. 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). 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] He received the Bertram E. Warren Award from the American Crystallographic Association in 2015[16] 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UQ Profile . UQ . 2015 . September 13, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051135/http://www.uq.edu.au/iceanconference/docs/Prof-Ajayan.pdf . 4 March 2016 . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: British Champions 1904 – present . The English Chess Federation . 17 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180626111649/https://www.englishchess.org.uk/british-champions-1904-present/ . 26 June 2018 . dead .
  3. Book: The British Chess Magazine . 1966 . Trubner & Company . 86 . 45 . en . Google Books.
  4. Web site: L. D. Marks . 2023-11-11 . Applied Physics Graduate Program - Northwestern University . en.
  5. Marks . L. D. . Howie . A. . 1979 . Multiply-twinned particles in silver catalysts . Nature . 282 . 5735 . 196 . 1979Natur.282..196M . 10.1038/282196a0 . 4256301.
  6. Summer 2015 . What's On the Cover . ACA RefleXions: American Crystallographic Association Matters . 2 . 17.
  7. Web site: Curriculum vitae — Laurence Daniel Marks . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20201023115317/https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/docs/public_cv/Marks-Laurence-CV.pdf . 23 October 2020 . 10 November 2023 . Northwestern University.
  8. Marks . Laurence Daniel . 1980 . The structure of small silver particles . PhD thesis . University of Cambridge. (Full text)
  9. Web site: August 2, 2019 . Professor Laurence Marks from Northwestern University of USA Visits SINANO . 2023-11-12 . Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  10. Web site: Fellows Database . 2023-11-12 . Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  11. News: 1987-04-19 . Sloan Foundation Awards 90 Grants . en-US . 1.42 . The New York Times . 2023-11-12 . 0362-4331.
  12. Web site: Fellman . Megan . July 27, 2023 . Laurence Marks Receives Fulbright Award . 2023-11-12 . Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering . en.
  13. Web site: Laurence Marks . 2023-11-12 . Fulbright Scholar Program.
  14. Web site: 2023 Commencement Program . Northwestern University.
  15. Web site: Society Awards Recipients By Year . 2023-11-12 . Microscopy Society of America . en.
  16. Web site: 2015 Award Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170611063334/http://www.amercrystalassn.org/2015-awardees . 11 June 2017 . 15 August 2015 . American Crystallographic Association . Internet Archive.
  17. Web site: ICSOS Prize winners . November 11, 2023 . International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS).
  18. Web site: APS Fellow Archive (M) . American Physical Society . 15 August 2015.
  19. Web site: MSA Fellows . 2023-10-14 . Microscopy Society of America.

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