2012 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology
Experimental - Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp
Theory - David Soloveichik
Student - David Walker
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The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2012 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.
The winner of the 2012 Feynman Prize for Experiment is the team of Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp for their work at IBM Research in Zurich (Dr. Repp is now at Regensburg University). The winner of the 2012 Feynman Prize for Theory is David Soloveichik of University of California, San Francisco, for his general theory of DNA displacement cascades.
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The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2011 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.
The winner of the 2011 Feynman Prize for Experimental work is Leonhard Grill (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Research School, Germany). The winner of the 2011 Feynman Prize for Theory is Raymond Astumian (University of Maine, USA).
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Distinguished Student Award
The Foresight Institute is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2012 Distinguished Student Award is David Walker, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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