The Iranian researcher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania won the Isaac Newton Medal.
According to ECO Cultural Institute quoting parstoday, the British Institute of Physics (IOP) awarded the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal to Prof. Nader Engheta, an Iranian researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
Engheta has been awarded for groundbreaking innovation and transformative contributions to electromagnetic complex materials and nanoscale optics, and for pioneering development of the fields of near-zero-index metamaterials, and material-inspired analogue computation and optical nanocircuitry.
Besides receiving the Isaac Newton Medal, Engheta has also been named the 2020 recipient of the Max Born Award.