2011 ICTP Prize awarded to Ado Jorio

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We are pleased to announce that the

*2011 ICTP Prize*

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is awarded to

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*Ado Jorio*

Departamento de Fisica

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte, Brasil

in honour of

*Praveen Chaudhari*

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*Ado Jorio de Vasconcelos *is recognized for his Raman spectroscopy work 
on single carbon nanotubes that has clarified their electronic and 
vibrational properties.

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Jorio's main research interest is in the physics of nano-materials. He 
developed experimental techniques to probe the geometrical and 
electronic properties of single carbon nano-tubes. This work had a major 
impact in the field of photo-physics in nano-structures, Raman 
spectroscopy of low dimensional dimensional systems and nano-metrology. 
He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the Federal 
University of Minas Gerais, having earned his PhD at the same university 
in 1999. He worked for two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.

*Praveen Chaudhari*(1937-2010) has made fundamental contributions to 
condensed matter physics and material science. He has worked on the 
structure and properties of amorphous solids, mechanical properties of 
thin films, defects in solids, quantum transport in disordered systems 
and superconductivity. One of his main achievements is the discovery and 
development of amorphous magnetic materials, that are the basis of 
erasable, read-write, optical storage technology. Professor Chaudhari 
had strong ties with the ICTP.He served as the Chairman of the 
Scientific Council from 1998 to 2002.

*The 2011 ICTP Prize Committee*

P.Creminelli

L.Göttsche

F.Kucharski

M.Marsili (Chairman)

30 March 2012