Anvar Zakhidov

Born on 2 May 1953 in Tashkent, he worked on superconductors in Japan for five years before immigrating to the United States in 1997, where he joined Honeywell in the private sector.^[2] He was installed for his pioneering contributions to the design, fabrication, characterization, and understanding of advanced functional nanomaterials and associated devices, including carbon nanotubes; superconducting and magnetic fullerenes; photonic crystals; solar cells; OLEDs; and cold field emission cathodes.

He was awarded the status of Fellow^[3] in the American Physical Society^[4] after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 2009.^[5]