Ray Baughman

Ray Baughman is an American chemist and academic, currently holding the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and serving as the Director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Harvard University.

With more than 100 issued U.S. patents and over 450 refereed publications, he has made notable contributions to the field of nanotechnology. Baughman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.

In 2005, Discover magazine ranked Baughman's carbon nanotube yarns and carbon nanotube sheets as the eighth-most important scientific discovery of the year. The sheets and yarns were noted in the Scientific American 50.