Anvar Zakhidov
Anvar Abdulakhadovich Zakhidov is an Uzbek-American physicist from the University of Texas at Dallas. Born 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. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 2009. 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.
