Prof Evelyn Hu Winning 2021 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

Prof Evelyn Hu, Honorary Professor of EE and the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, has been selected to receive the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal.  The citation for this award is “For leadership in nanoscale science and engineering, and for seminal contributions at the intersection of semiconductor electronics and photonics.”.

The James Clerk Maxwell Medal is awarded jointly by the RSE (The Royal Society of Edinburgh) and the IEEE for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields. The annual prize, established since 2006 and one of the highest awards presented by IEEE, is named in honour of James Clerk Maxwell, the outstanding 19th Century Scottish mathematician and physicist.