Kumar Wickramasinghe
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| name = Kumar Wickramasinghe
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| birth_name = Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe
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| fields = Scanning probe microscopy
Nanotechnology
Nanobiotechnology{{Google scholar id}}
| workplaces = University of California, Irvine
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| alma_mater = King's College London (BSc)
University College London (PhD)
| thesis_title = Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids
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| thesis_year = 1974
| doctoral_advisor = Eric Ash
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| known_for = Scanning thermal microscopy
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| awards = Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000)
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| website = {{URL|http://engineering.uci.edu/users/h-kumar-wickramasinghe}}}}
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.{{cite web |title=H. Kumar Wickramasinghe |url=http://engineering.uci.edu/users/h-kumar-wickramasinghe |website=Henry Samueli School of Engineering |accessdate=29 April 2019}}
Education
He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University College London (University of London)|url=https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=Two%20and%20Three%20Dimensional%20Acoustic%20Holography%20in%20Solids&rn=1|title=Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids|first= H. Kumar|last=Wickramasinghe|date=1974|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.477197}}|website=jisc.ac.uk|oclc=500588924}} in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.{{cite web |title=CURRICULUM VITAE: H. Kumar Wickramasinghe |url=https://nano.eng.uci.edu/files/2017/08/KW-CV-UCI-June-2017.pdf |accessdate=29 April 2019}}
Career and research
He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.{{cite web |title=Kumar Wickramasinghe |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/kumar-wickramasinghe-14134/ |website=Royal Society |accessdate=29 April 2019}} He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
Personal life
He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.
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