Laboratory scientist My Hang Huynh is one of 24 recipients of a 2007 MacArthur Fellow award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
MacArthur Fellowships offers the opportunity for Fellows to accelerate their current activities or take their work in new directions, according to a news release from the foundation. The unusual level of independence afforded to Fellows underscores the spirit of freedom intrinsic to creative endeavors. MacArthur Fellows also receive a $500,000 grant over five years from the foundation.
Huynh, a chemist in High Explosive Science and Technology (DE-1), earlier this year received an E.O. Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy for her research and discovery of Green Primary Explosives to replace mercury and lead primary explosives, which have caused detrimental effects on the environment and humans for nearly 400 years. Her interdisciplinary research has led to the formation of a new series of high-nitrogen transition metal complexes, which are perfect precursors for preparing metallic nanofoams. She joined the Laboratory in 2000.
Green Primary Explosives also won a 2006 R&D 100 Magazine award, which honors significant commercial promise in products, materials, or processes developed by the international research and development community.
Click here to read overviews of the 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2007.
