Background
Ebbesen, Thomas Wren was born on January 30, 1954 in Oslo. Son of Just Christian and Marie (Legrand) Ebbesen.
physicist university professor
Ebbesen, Thomas Wren was born on January 30, 1954 in Oslo. Son of Just Christian and Marie (Legrand) Ebbesen.
Thomas Ebbesen received his bachelors from Oberlin College, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in the field of photo-physical chemistry.
He then worked at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory before joining the Nippon Electric Corporation Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan in 1988 where his research shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon nanotubes. After discovering how to mass-produce carbon nanotubes, he and his colleagues measured many of their unique features such as their mechanical and wetting properties. Foreign his pioneering and extensive contribution to the field of carbon nanotubes, he shared the 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize with Sumio Iijima, Cees Dekker and Paul McEuen.
While working at Nippon Electric Corporation, Ebbesen discovered a major new optical phenomenon.
He found that, contrary to the then accepted theory, it was possible to transmit light extremely efficiently through subwavelength holes milled in opaque metal films under certain conditions. The phenomenon, known as extraordinary optical transmission, involves surface plasmons.
lieutenant has raised fundamental questions and is finding applications in broad variety of areas from chemistry to opto-electronics. His current research is focused on the physics and chemistry of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale.
In 1999, Thomas Ebbesen joined ISIS founded by Jean-Marie Lehn at the University of Strasbourg, which he headed from 2004 to 2012.
He is the director of the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry. and the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. They have two daughters.
French Academy of Sciences. Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the French Academy of Science and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts.
Married Masako Hayashi, February 21, 1979. Children: Saya, Mika.