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 Henry Ignatius Smith, MS'60, PH.D. '66 |
Henry Ignatius Smith is founder of and a principal investigator at the nanostructures laboratory at MIT, where he has been professor of electrical engineering since 1980. A graduate of Holy Cross, Professor Smith received his master’s and doctoral degrees in physics from Boston College. After two years as assistant professor of physics at the University, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in 1968 and there pioneered nanofabrication techniques.
Professor Smith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among many professional honors, he received the 1995 Cledo Brunetti award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has also been a visiting scientist at universities and institutes in Europe, New Zealand, and Japan. Author or co-author of more than 400 technical articles, he has more than 40 U.S. patents.
At MIT, Professor Smith serves as the faculty athletic representative to the NCAA and as mentor for the women’s varsity tennis team. He also travels twice each year, winter and summer, to Nunavik in the Canadian Arctic for hiking, photography, and fly fishing. He serves as an advisor to an Inuit owned outfitting company in the Arctic.