Jean-Luc Brédas
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chemist and professor at Georgia Tech
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in the United States
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, and at the Université de Mons-Hainaut (Belgium). He studied chemistry (B.S. 1976) and obtained a PhD in 1979 at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
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(University of Namur), Belgium under the direction of Professor Jean-Marie André
Jean-Marie Andre
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. His research deals with the structural, electronic, and optical properties of novel organic and nano materials with promising characteristics in the field of electronics
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, photonics
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, and information technology
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Jean-Luc Brédas is among the top 100 most cited chemists in the world, and is included in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers for Chemistry http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/formViewCharacteristic.cgi?table=Publication&id=1859&link1=Biography&link2=View%20Publications&nav=p1. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, the American Physical Society
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, and the Optical Society of America
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. In 1997, he was awarded the Francqui Prize
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on Exact Sciences. He received the Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Science Foundation
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in 2000 (in French: FNRS, in Dutch: NFWO) http://www1.frs-fnrs.be/3-financement/4-prix.html#. He is the Director of International Programs at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech.