Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, 2009 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society, 2008 Oersted Medal, 2007 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, 2007 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment, 2005 IEEE Founders Medal Recipients, 2004 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics, American Institute of Physics, 2001 Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology, American Carbon Society, 2001 Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000 National Materials Advancement Award of the Federation of Materials Societies, 2000 Honorary Doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, February 2000 Nicholson Medal, American Physical Society, March 2000 Weizmann Institute's Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2000 SGL Carbon Award, American Carbon Society, 1997 Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1995 National Medal of Science, 1990 Member of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 1985 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, 1977 Fellow, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Selected publications References External links Freeview video interview with Mildred Dresslhaus by the Vega Science Trust Millie Dresselhaus Fund Homepage Archive of Dresselhaus's MIT page Mildred Dresselhaus Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America 1930 births 2017 deaths American nanotechnologists American women physicists American women engineers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Physics Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Enrico Fermi Award recipients L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates National Medal of Science laureates MIT School of Engineering faculty Radcliffe College alumni Hunter College alumni Hunter College High School alumni University of Chicago alumni Cornell University alumni American materials scientists Jewish American scientists People from Brooklyn 21st-century American physicists 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American women scientists Carbon scientists American people of Polish-Jewish descent MIT Lincoln Laboratory people Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Scientists from New York (state) Kavli Prize laureates in Nanoscience Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners American women academics IEEE Medal of Honor recipients 21st-century American Jews Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery 20th-century American women Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the American Physical