Bourns College of Engineering

Degrees

BSc Chemistry 1966

Melbourne University, Australia

PhD Chemistry 1971

Pennsylvania State University

Awards

• Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1988
• Fellow, American Association Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1993
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1996
• Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, 1973-75
• Person of the Year, Superconductor Week, 1991
• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1992
• Research Scholar Lectureship, Drew University, 1992
• Leermakers Lectureship, Wesleyan University, 1992
• Xerox Lecturer in Industrial/Applied Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1999
• James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials from the American Physical Society (APS), 2008

Research Area

The electronic structure and properties of molecules and materials, with particular emphasis on transport, magnetism, superconductivity, device fabrication and miniaturization, and the discovery of new classes of materials.

Publications

For additional information, please see Professor Haddon's faculty webpage.

http://www.chem.ucr.edu/groups/haddon/

Former Institution

Bell Laboratories (AT&T Lucent Technologies)

Biography

He is best known for the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped carbon-60. His research group is currently working on the chemistry and applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene and on the synthesis and properties of neutral radical molecular conductors.