Mechanical engineering Professor Murray Gibson was recently named Distinguished Scientist by the Microscopy Society of America. His lab is in the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. (Scott Holstein/FAMU-FSU Engineering)
The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) recently named Murray Gibson, a mechanical engineering professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, as the Distinguished Scientist (Physical Sciences) for 2024. The award honors Gibson’s work in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) applied to a variety of materials problems over his career.
The Society’s Distinguished Scientist Award honors two preeminent senior scientists each year in the disciplines of physical sciences and biological sciences, for a long-standing record of achievement in microscopy and microanalysis during their career. Gibson will be honored at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2024 annual conference this summer in Cleveland.
“It is a wonderful honor to receive this award from my microscopy colleagues,” said Gibson. “Throughout my career I have developed and used TEM in materials research. I often tell my students that in research ‘you gotta have a gimmick’ and TEM has served me well as an entrée to exciting material problems.”
For example, Gibson was a co-author with 2023 Noble Laureate Louis Brus of a key paper that demonstrated the full potential of quantum dots (Journal of Chemical Physics). Other breakthroughs include a technique to expose hidden structure in amorphous materials, development of in-situ TEM to watch thin film deposition, the first measurement of the incredibly high strength of a single carbon nanotube, and a patent on projection electron lithography for semiconductor manufacturing.
Gibson obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1978 and emigrated to the U.S., where he worked for IBM, Bell Labs, two universities and a national laboratory before serving as dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering from 2016-2021.
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