Mildred S. Dresselhaus is currently one of twelve active Institute Professors at MIT.
She previously held the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Chair at MIT in Electrical Engineering and
Physics, and was formerly the Director of the Center for Materials Science and Engineering,
at MIT. She has been active in the study of a wide range of
problems in the physics of solids. Her recent interests have been directed toward the
study of the structure and properties of carbon fibers, fullerenes, carbon
nanotubes, bismuth nanotubes and low dimensional thermoelectric materials.
- Awarded National Medal of Science, November 1990
- 17 Honorary Degrees
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1976; Smith College, 1980; Hunter College, 1982;
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1984; Université Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1988; State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, 1989;
University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1992; University of Connecticut, 1992;
Princeton University, 1992; Colorado School of Mines, 1993; Johannes Kepler
Universitat Linz, Austria, 1993; The Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1994; Harvard
University, 1995; Ohio State University, 1998; University of Paris, Sorbonne, 1999;
Columbia University, 1999; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2000.
MIT
- Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Electrical
Engineering, 1973-1985
- Institute Professor MIT, 1985-present
- MIT Killian Faculty Award, 1986
Other Awards
- Hunter College: Hall of Fame Award, 1972
- Radcliffe College Alumni Medal, 1973
- Elected to Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974
- Elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, 1974
- Corresponding Member, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 1976
- Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, 1977
- Elected to Council of National Academy of
Engineering, 1981-1987
- Elected President of the American Physical Society, 1984
- Elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, 1985
- Elected to Board of Directors of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1985-89
- Elected to Council of National Academy of Sciences, 1987-90
- Annual Achievement Award, Engineering Societies of New England, 1988
- Trustee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988-1992
- Achievement Award, New York Academy of Sciences, 1991
- Elected Treasurer of National Academy of Sciences, 1992-96
- Trustee, California Institute of Technology, 1993-present
- Elected as a Foreign Associate of the Engineering Academy of Japan, 1993
- Elected to Membership in the American Philosophical Society, 1995
- Elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996
- Sigri-Great Lakes Carbon Award, American Carbon Society, 1997
- Elected Harvard Overseer, 1997
- Elected Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 1998
- Hall of Fame Award, Women in Technology International (WITI) 1998
- Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement, Hunter College 1998
- Fellow, American Carbon Society (1999).
- American Physical Society : Nicholson Medal 2000.
- Weizmann Institute's Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2000
Guest Lecturerships:
- Graffin Lecturer, American Carbon Society, 1982
- Chancellor's Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
- Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1986-87
- Hund-Klemm Lecturer, 1988
- Houston Lecturer, Rice University, 1993
- William H. Zachariasen Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1993
- Joe Morgen Lecturer, Texas Christian University, 1995
- Newcomb Lecturer, Tulane University, 1996
- GE Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1997
- Ford Lab Lecturer, Ford Motor Company, 1998
- Sigma Xi Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1999
- Douglass College Lecture, Rutgers University, 1999
- Warren Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1999
- Celsius Lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2000