Warren Award (2015) Laurence Daniel Marks is an American emeritus professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University.

[5] From 1976 to 1980, he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, where he worked with Archibald Howie on electron microscopy and the structure of metal crystals.

[9]In March 1985, Marks joined the faculty of Northwestern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering.

[2] In 2019, he was a senior visiting scientist with the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).

[15][7] He received the Bertram E. Warren Award from the American Crystallographic Association in 2015[16][7] and the International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces Prize in 2017.