Foresight Prizes Hall of Fame

2022 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: James R. Chelikowsky (University of Texas)
• Experimental: Sergei V. Kalinin (University of Tennessee nanotechnology)
• Distinguished Student Award: Dr. Emanuele Penocchio

2021 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Kendall N. Houk (UCLA)
• Experimental: Anne-Sophie Duwez (University of Liège)
• Distinguished Student Award: Yuanning Feng (Northwestern University)

2020 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra (University of California)
• Experimental: Prof. Hao Yan (Arizona State University)
• Distinguished Student Award: Dr. Liang Feng (Northwestern University)

2019 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Prof. Giulia Galli (Argonne National Laboratory, Galli Group in the Pritzker Schoo of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, IL)
• Experimental: Prof. Lulu Qian, (Qian Lab, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, CA)
• Distinguished Student Award: Yuxing Yao (Caltech and Harvard)

2018 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Prof. Anatole von Lilienfeld (Lilienfeld QM-RCD Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Experimental: Andreas Heinrich (IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience), Christopher Lutz (IBM Research)
• Distinguished Student Award: Qi Li (Carnegie Mellon University, PA)

2017 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Giovanni Zoccchi (Zocchi Lab for Molecular Biophysics, UCLA)
• Experimental: William Shih (Shih Laboratory Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group, Harvard)
• Distinguished Student Award: Hai Qian (Dartmouth College, NH)

2016 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Bartosz A. Grzybowski (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
• Experimental: Franz J. Giessibl (University of Regensburg, Germany)
• Distinguished Student Award: Conrad Pfeiffer

2015 Foresight Prizes

• Theoretical: Markus J. Buehler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Experimental: Michelle Y. Simmons FAA (Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow & Director, The University of New South Wales
• Distinguished Student Award: Chuyang Cheng

2014 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Amanda S. Barnard (Australia’s Office of the Chief Executive (OCE), The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))
• Feynman Experimental: Joseph W. Lyding (University of Illinois and Beckman Institute)

2013 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: Alexander K. Zettl (U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Feynman Theoretical: David N. Beratan (Duke University)
• Distinguished Student Award: Jonathan C. Barnes

2012 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: is the team of Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp (IBM Research in Zurich; Dr. Repp is now at Regensburg University)
• Feynman Theoretical: David Soloveichik (University of California, San Francisco)
• Distinguished Student Award: David Walker

2011 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: Leonhard Grill (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Research School, Germany)
• Feynman Theoretical: Raymond Astumian (University of Maine, USA)

2010 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: Masakazu Aono (MANA Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
• Feynman Theoretical: Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University)

2009 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Masayuki Abe (Osaka University), and Oscar Custance (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
• Feynman Theoretical: Robert A. Freitas Jr. (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)

2008 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: James M. Tour (Rice University)
• Feynman Theoretical: George C. Schatz (Northwestern University)

2007 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: David A. Leigh (University of Edinburgh)
• Feynman Experimental: J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California – Los Angeles)
• Distinguished Student Award: Fung Suong Ou
• Foresight Communication Prize: Robert A. Freitas Jr.

2006 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)
• Feynman Experimental: Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)
• Distinguished Student Award: Berhane Temelso
• Foresight Communication Prize: John Storrs Hall

2005 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Christian Joachim (Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
• Feynman Experimental: Christian Schafmeister (University of Pittsburgh)
• Distinguished Student Award: Christopher Levins
• Foresight Communication Prize: Rocky Rawstern
• Foresight Government Prize: Congressman Mike Honda

2004 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: David Baker (University of Washington) and Brian Kuhlman (University of North Carolina)
• Feynman Experimental: Homme Hellinga (Duke University)
• Distinguished Student Award: Damian Allis
• Foresight Communication Prize: Howard Lovy

2003 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley)
• Feynman Experimental: Carlo Montemagno (University of California at Los Angeles)
• Distinguished Student Award: Ahmet Yildiz
• Foresight Communication Prize: Tim Harper and Paul Holister

2002 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Don Brenner (North Carolina State University)
• Feynman Experimental: Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)
• Distinguished Student Award: Yi Cui
• Foresight Communication Prize: David Pescovitz

2001 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Theoretical: Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)
• FeynmanExperimental: Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)
• Distinguished Student Award: Jing Kong
• Foresight Communication Prize: Ivan Amato

2000 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: R. Stanley Williams (HP Labs), Philip Kuekes (HP Labs) and James Heath (UCLA)
• Feynman Theoretical: Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)
• Distinguished Student Award: Christopher Love
• Foresight Communication Prize: Ron Dagani

1999 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: Phaedon Avouris (IBM)
• Feynman Theoretical: William A. Goddard III, Dr. Tahir Cagin, and Ms. Yue Qi, (Caltech)
• Distinguished Student Award: Anita Goel

1998 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: M. Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)
• Feynman Theoretical: Ralph C. Merkle (Zyvex, LLC), Stephen Walch (ELORET NASA Ames)
• Distinguished Student Award: Fotis Nifiatis

1997 Foresight Prizes

• Feynman Experimental: James K. Gimzewski (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Reto Schlittler (IBM), Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS)
• Feynman 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
• Distinguished Student Award: Phil Collins

1995 Foresight Feynman Prize: Nadrian C. Seeman (New York University)

1993 Foresight Feynman Prize: Charles Musgrave (Caltech)