Richard P. Feynman
1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
The 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology was awarded to
Nadrian
C. Seeman.
UNISCI
has an article on the Feynman Prize
A prize in the amount of $10,000 will be awarded to the researcher whose
recent work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology.
The prize will be given at the
Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular
Nanotechnology, to be held in Palo Alto,
California, on November 9-11, 1995.
Submissions consist of one or more of the following:
- an approved thesis or dissertation (bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D.)
- an article published in a refereed journal
- a paper approved for publication in a refereed journal
In addition, each submission must include a one-page summary of the work
and its relevance to the goal of molecular nanotechnology and/or molecular
manufacturing. (If the journal article submitted has multiple authors, the
applicant's role in the research must be stated.) Summaries may be up to
400 words in length.
Research areas considered relevant to molecular nanotechnology and
molecular manufacturing include but are not limited to:
- supramolecular chemistry and self assembly
- proximal probes (e.g. STM, AFM)
- biochemistry and protein engineering
- computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- natural molecular machines (e.g. flagellar motor, ribosome)
- materials science
Both experimental and theoretical work are eligible. Special consideration
will be given to submissions clearly leading toward the construction of a
general-purpose molecular assembler. Applicants wishing further
information on the field of the prize are referred to the book
Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
(Wiley Interscience, 1992).
This prize is in honor of
Richard P. Feynman who,
in 1959, gave a
visionary talk at Caltech in which he said
"The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if
our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic
level, is ultimately developed---a development which I think cannot
be avoided."
The Selection Committee for the 1995 Prize includes:
- K. Eric Drexler, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing and Chairman,
Foresight Institute
- Carl R. Feynman, computer scientist
- William A. Goddard III, Chemistry and Applied Physics,
Materials and
Molecular Simulation Center, Caltech
- Tracy Handel, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
- Neil Jacobstein, Chairman, Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing; President, Teknowledge, Inc.
- Arthur Kantrowitz, Dartmouth College, Professor of Engineering,
and Advisor, Foresight Institute
- Ralph C. Merkle,
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- Marvin Minsky,
MIT Media Lab professor, and Advisor,
Foresight Institute
- Charles Musgrave, Chemical Engineering, MIT [now Stanford]
- Nils Nilsson,
Robotics Laboratory,
Computer Science Dept.,
Stanford.
- Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Laureate,
IBM Research Division, Zurich, Switzerland
- George Whitesides, Dept. of Chemistry, Harvard
Submissions should be mailed to the
Foresight Institute at the postal
address below, to arrive by September 1, 1995. One copy of the paper or
thesis and five copies of the one-page summary are required. The summary
must include the applicant's address, telephone, and (if possible) fax
number and email address. Finalists may be contacted for additional
information. The prizewinner must be present at the conference to accept
the prize.
We would like to extend our deepest thanks to
Marc Arnold
Christopher Portman
and
Ted Kaehler
for the funding which has made this prize possible.
For further information, contact the
Foresight Institute at P.O. Box 61058,
Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA. Tel 415-324-2490, Fax 415-324-2497, Email
inform@foresight.org.
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