Anita Goel
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Born
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
CitizenshipUS
KnownforMolecular motors
Nanobiophysics
Nanotechnology
Physics of Life
Living Systems
Quantum Information
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Information, and Consciousness
Nanobiophysics
Nanotechnology
Physics of Life
Living Systems
Quantum Information
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Information, and Consciousness
Anita Goel | |
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| Born | Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
| Citizenship | US |
| Alma mater | Harvard University MIT Stanford University Harvard Medical School |
| Known for | Molecular motors Nanobiophysics Nanotechnology Physics of Life Living Systems Quantum Information Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Information, and Consciousness |
| Awards | 1st XPRIZE for Healthcare- Grand Prize Winner] MIT TR35: World's Top 35 Science and Technology Innovators Scientific American's World's Most Influential Visionaries in Biotech One of the Most Influential Nanotechnology Leaders |
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| Fields | Physicist Physician Physician-Scientist Nanobiophysicist |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Dudley Robert Herschbach |
Anita Goel is an American physicist, physician, and scientist in the emerging field of Nanobiophysics. At the Nanobiosym Research Institute (NBS), Goel examines the physics of life and the way nanomotors read and write information into DNA.
Goel received a PhD and M.A. in physics from Harvard University, where she worked with Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach. Her thesis was entitled Single Molecule Dynamics of Motor Enzymes Along DNA.
She received a BS in physics with honors and distinction from Stanford University, where her honors thesis mentor was Nobel laureate Steven Chu.
She also earned in parallel an M.D. from the Harvard–MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).[1][2][3]
