Stuart Lindsay

Early life and education Lindsay was born in London, England, and earned his PhD in physics from the University of Manchester in 1976. He then worked briefly in solid-state physics research for Philips Industries in London before moving to the United States.

In 1993 he co-founded Molecular Imaging Corporation with engineer Tianwei Jing to commercialise liquid-environment atomic force microscopes; the company was acquired by Agilent Technologies in November 2005 and later became part of Keysight Technologies.

His group advanced single-molecule electron transport measurements. These include reproducible conductance studies of alkanedithiols and organic molecules.

He developed recognition-tunneling methods for identifying individual DNA bases and amino acids at the single-molecule level. He also contributed to nanopore sequencing technologies as co-author of a 2008 Nature Biotechnology review.

He holds 56 U.S. patents in scanning probe instrumentation and molecular electronics and has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers.

Impact The instruments developed by Molecular Imaging (now Keysight) have become standard tools in nanotechnology and life-sciences research. The company is cited as a significant economic outcome of federally funded university research. His textbook is used for interdisciplinary nanoscience education. A special issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2012) was dedicated to his work.

Awards and honors Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1993) Fellow, American Physical Society (1990; for pioneering STM imaging of biomolecules in water) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) Regents' Professor, Arizona State University (2008) Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK) (2011) Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2014; inducted 2015) University Professor, Arizona State University (2014)

Selected publications Lindsay, S. M. (2009). Introduction to Nanoscience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954421-9. (Described as the first comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook on the subject.)

Branton, D.; Deamer, D. W.; Marziali, A.... Lindsay, S. M. ... (2008). "The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (10): 1146–1153. .

Li, X.; He, J.; Hihath, J.; Xu, B.; Lindsay, S. M.; Tao, N. J. (2006). "Conductance of single alkanedithiols...". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128 (6): 2135–2141. (662+ citations).

Lindsay, S. et al. (1989). "STM and AFM images of nucleosome DNA under water". Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. 7 (2): 279–287. (early pioneering work).

Krishnan, S.; Lindsay, S. et al. (2023). "Long-Range Conductivity in Proteins Mediated by Aromatic Residues". ACS Physical Chemistry Au. 3 (5): 362–370. .