- Reshef Tenne
Reshef Tenne ( _he. רשף טנא;
1944 -) is anIsrael i scientist.Tenne is most notable for his prediction in
1992 , following the discovery ofcarbon nanotubes that nanoparticles ofinorganic compounds with layered structures, such as MoS2, would not be stable against folding and would also formnanotubes andfullerene -like structures.Born in Kibbutz Usha, Tenne received his BSc in Chemistry and Physics from
Hebrew University inJerusalem in 1969, where he also received his MSc (1971) and PhD (1976). He then spent three years at theBattelle Institute inGeneva ,Switzerland , before joining theWeizmann Institute on 1979. He was promoted to full professor in1995 .Tenne is currently the Drake Family Professor and Head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the
Weizmann Institute of Science , and Director of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Sciences, director of the G.Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architectures and holds theDrake Family Chair in Nanotechnology.In 2005, Tenne received the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal for his work on inorganic fullerenes.
External links
* [http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/TennePage.htm Reshef Tenne home page] at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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