Nader Engheta

نادر انقطاع

Nader Engheta (born 8 October 1955) is an Iranian-American scientist and electrical engineer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of metamaterials, nanophotonics and plasmonics. He took his Caltech doctorate in 1982 and received the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and the 2023 Franklin Medal.

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engineer · Scientist
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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    Early life and education

    Born in Tehran, he took his bachelor's degree at the University of Tehran and moved to the United States for graduate study, completing his doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1982 under Charles H. Papas, with a dissertation on the radiation patterns of interfacial antennas. 1 2

    Career and research

    Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He founded much of the modern field of metamaterials and optical nanocircuits, and his work spans plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-antennas and bio-inspired imaging of polarisation vision. His honours include the Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), the IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2012), the SPIE Gold Medal (2015), the Isaac Newton Medal (2020) and the Franklin Medal (2023). 1

    Religion

    His faith is recorded as unknown, on a complete absence of attestation: no article text, infobox, category filing or Wikidata value names any religion for him in any edition read, and the Urdu article is only a stub derived from the English. 1 2 3 4

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    Sources

    1. Nader Engheta — English Wikipedia
    2. Nader Engheta — Persian Wikipedia
    3. Nader Engheta — Urdu Wikipedia
    4. Nader Engheta — Wikidata Q6957556
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    islam.museum contributors. “Nader Engheta”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/nader-engheta/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.

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