Bruce Weisman wins Electrochemical Society Richard E. Smalley Research Award
Chemist Bruce Weisman’s three-decade career in nanocarbons research has been honored with the namesake award of the Rice colleague who founded the field and sparked Weisman’s interest in it.
Weisman is the winner of the Electrochemical Society’s (ECS) 2024 Richard E. Smalley Research Award. Smalley, also a Rice chemist, was a Nobel laureate, nanotechnology pioneer and a frequent research collaborator and friend of Weisman’s prior to his untimely death from cancer in 2005.
“I’m very honored,” Weisman said of the award, which is given every two years by the ECS Nanocarbons Division in recognition of “outstanding achievements in, or scientific contributions to, the science of fullerenes, nanotubes and carbon nanostructures.”