Winners
2024
Theoretical
Experimental
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The Feynman Prizes, named in honor of physicist Richard Feynman, celebrate his groundbreaking vision for science. His 1959 lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom“, is widely credited as inspiring the field of nanotechnology.
Through these prizes, Foresight Institute recognizes exceptional contributions that advance nanotechnology.
The Feynman Prizes have a proven track record of honoring future Nobel laureates, including the late Sir Fraser Stoddart (2007 Feynman Prize, 2016 Nobel Prize) and David Baker (2004 Feynman Prize, 2024 Nobel Prize) who won both prizes for his work on computational protein design.
The Feynman Prizes have a proven track record of honoring future Nobel laureates, including the late Sir Fraser Stoddart (2007 Feynman Prize, 2016 Nobel Prize) and David Baker (2004 Feynman Prize, 2024 Nobel Prize) who won both prizes for his work on computational protein design.
“…the rewards awaiting those who achieve significant nanotechnology breakthroughs will be far greater than the prize itself.”
Founder of the Feynman Prizes
The Feynman Grand Prize will be awarded to the first team who designs, constructs, and demonstrates both a functional nano-scale robotic arm and a functional nano-scale computing device with specified features. Established in 1996 by by two entrepreneurs associated with Foresight Institute; James R. Von Ehr II (former Founder of Altsys Corporation, former Vice President at Macromedia, and current CEO and Founder of Zyvex Labs and Board of Zyvex Technologies) and Marc Arnold (CEO of Angel Technologies, a St. Louis-based wireless telecommunication company) the Feynman Grand Prize worth $250,000 is yet to be claimed.
The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory is awarded for excellence in theory to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the achievement of Feynman’s goal for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the construction of atomically-precise products through the use of molecular machine systems. The prize entails $5000, an invitation to the award ceremony and technical workshop, and public acknowledgment and support.
The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Experiment is awarded for excellence in experimentation to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the achievement of Feynman’s goal for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the construction of atomically-precise products through the use of molecular machine systems. The prize entails $5000, an invitation to the award ceremony and technical workshop, and public acknowledgment and support.
The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award recognizes the College graduate or undergraduate student whose work is considered most notable in advancing the development and understanding of nanotechnology. The prize entails $1000, an invitation to the award ceremony and technical workshop, and public acknowledgment and support.
Alexandre Tkatchenko
James J. Collins
Qiancheng Xiong
James R. Chelikowsky (University of Texas)
Sergei V. Kalinin (ORNL)
Dr. Emanuele Penocchio (Northwestern University)
Kendall N. Houk (UCLA)
Anne-Sophie Duwez (University of Liège)
Yuanning Feng (Northwestern University)
Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra (University of California)
Prof. Hao Yan (Arizona State University)
Dr. Liang Feng (Northwestern University)
Prof. Giulia Galli (University of Chicago, IL)
Prof. Lulu Qian, (California Institute of Technology)
Yuxing Yao (Caltech and Harvard)
Prof. Anatole von Lilienfeld (University of Basel)
Andreas Heinrich (IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience), Christopher Lutz (IBM Research)
Qi Li (Carnegie Mellon University)
Giovanni Zoccchi (UCLA)
William Shih (Harvard University)
Hai Qian (Dartmouth College)
Bartosz A. Grzybowski (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Franz J. Giessibl (University of Regensburg)
Conrad Pfeiffer (Temple University)
Markus J. Buehler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michelle Y. Simmons FAA (The University of New South Wales)
Chuyang Cheng (Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group)
Amanda S. Barnard (Australia’s Office of the Chief Executive (OCE), The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))
Joseph W. Lyding (University of Illinois and Beckman Institute)
David N. Beratan (Duke University)
Alexander K. Zettl (U.C. Berkeley)
Jonathan C. Barnes (Northwestern University)
David Soloveichik (University of California)
Is the team of Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp (Regensburg University)
David Walker (Northwestern University)
Raymond Astumian (University of Maine)
Leonhard Grill (Fritz Haber Institute)
Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University)
Masakazu Aono (National Institute for Materials Science)
Robert A. Freitas Jr. (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Masayuki Abe (Osaka University), and Oscar Custance (National Institute for Materials Science)
George C. Schatz (Northwestern University)
James M. Tour (Rice University)
David A. Leigh (University of Edinburgh)
J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California)
Fung Suong Ou (Rice University)
Robert A. Freitas Jr. (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)
Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)
Berhane Temelso (Georgia Institute of Technology)
John Storrs Hall (independent)
Christian Joachim (Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique)
Christian Schafmeister (University of Pittsburgh)
Christopher Levins (University of Pittsburg)
Rocky Rawstern (Nanotechnology Now)
Congressman Mike Honda
David Baker (University of Washington) and Brian Kuhlman (University of North Carolina)
Homme Hellinga (Duke University)
Damian Allis (Syracuse University)
Howard Lovy (NanoBot Blog)
Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley)
Carlo Montemagno (University of California)
Ahmet Yildiz (University of Illinois)
Tim Harper and Paul Holister (Cientifica)
Don Brenner (North Carolina State University)
Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)
Yi Cui (Harvard University)
David Pescovitz (University of California, Berkeley)
Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)
Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)
Jing Kong (Stanford)
Ivan Amato (Science News)
Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)
R. Stanley Williams (HP Labs), Philip Kuekes (HP Labs) and James Heath (UCLA)
Christopher Love (Harvard University)
Ron Dagani (MIT)
William A. Goddard III, Dr. Tahir Cagin, and Ms. Yue Qi, (Caltech)
Phaedon Avouris (IBM)
Anita Goel (Harvard University)
Ralph C. Merkle (Zyvex, LLC), Stephen Walch (ELORET NASA Ames)
M. Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)
Fotis Nifiatis (Hunter College, CUNY)
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
James K. Gimzewski (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Reto Schlittler (IBM), Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS)
Phil Collins (University of California, Berkeley)
Nadrian C. Seeman (New York University)
Charles Musgrave (Caltech)
