Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize

Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize

Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize is an award given by Foresight Nanotech Institute every year for significant advancements in nanotechnology. It is named after physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman's 1959 talk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is considered to be the first talk on nanotechnology.

Winners

*2007 Theoretical: David A. Leigh (University of Edinburgh, UK)
*2007 Experimental J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California at Los Angeles)

*2006 Theoretical: Erik Winfree and Paul W. K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)
*2006 Experimental: Erik Winfree and Paul W. K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)

*2005 Theoretical: Christian Joachim (Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
*2005 Experimental: Christian Schafmeister (University of Pittsburgh)

*2004 Theoretical: David Baker (University of Washington) and Brian Kuhlman (University of North Carolina)
*2004 Experimental: Homme Hellinga (Duke University)

*2003 Theoretical: Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley)
*2003 Experimental: Carlo Montemagno (University of California at Los Angeles)

*2002 Theoretical: Don Brenner (North Carolina State University)
*2002 Experimental: Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)

*2001 Theoretical: Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)
*2001 Experimental: Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)

*2000 Experimental: R. Stanley Williams (HP Labs), Philip Kuekes (HP Labs) and James Heath (UCLA)
*2000 Theoretical: Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)

*1999 Experimental: Phaedon Avouris (IBM)
*1999 Theoretical: William A. Goddard III, Tahir Cagin, and Yue Qi (Caltech)

*1998 Experimental: M. Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)
*1998 Theoretical: Ralph C. Merkle (Zyvex, LLC), Stephen Walch (ELORET NASA Ames)

*1997 Experimental: James K. Gimzewski (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Reto Schlittler (IBM), Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS)
*1997 Theoretical: NASA Ames, MRJ Team— Charles Bauschlicher, Stephen Barnard, Creon Levit, Glenn Deardorff, Al Globus, Jie Han, Richard Jaffe, Alessandra Ricca, Marzio Rosi, Deepak Srivastava, H. Thuemmel

*1995: Nadrian C. Seeman (New York University)

*1993: Charles Musgrave (Caltech)

References

* [http://www.foresight.org/about/fi_spons.html#PrevPrizes List of past winners and explanation of the prize]

External links

* [http://www.foresight.org/prize/index.html Foresight Nanotech Institute Prize]


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