Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes Instructions
There are two categories of the Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes
- Molecular nanotechnology – Experiment
- Molecular nanotechnology – Theory
See list of previous winners.
Nominations
Deadline for submitting nominations: June 30, 2009.
Nominations must state which Prize is being applied for, and have a summary with the nominee's address, telephone, and (if possible) fax and email address.
Nominations must include at least one (ideally, all) of the following:
- URL of bio, CV, and/or research group
- List of up to five most relevant publications
- URLs for, or electronic files of, up to five most relevant publications
- Statement of up to 400 words describing the work and its relevance to the goal of MNT, e.g., molecular manufacturing and molecular machine systems. [If the work has multiple authors, the nominee's role must be stated.]
Contact information should be included for nominator as well as nominee. Finalists may be contacted for additional information.
Individual submissions are preferred, but teams of up to three will be considered. Team members may not be changed after the submission deadline.
Please submit the above information in ONE email to foresight@foresight.org with a "cc" (courtesy copy) sent to jlewis@foresight.org.
Supporting documents for all applications must be submitted with the email in one of two ways:
- PREFERRED: A URL pointing at the full document, no fee required. URLs pointing to journal web sites that charge fees for non-subscriber access are not acceptable.
- An email attachment of the full document emailed to foresight@foresight.org, with nominee's name included.
Relevant Research Areas
Research areas considered relevant to MNT (e.g., productive nanosystems and molecular machine systems) include but are not limited to:
- artificial molecular machines
- atomically-precise construction
- biomolecular machinery
- computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- mechanosynthesis
- nanomechanical engineering
- nanomanipulation
- natural molecular machines
- scanning probes and nanometrology
- self-assembly
- self-replicating machines
- supramolecular chemistry
- ultra-precision machining
Special consideration will be given to submissions clearly leading toward the construction of productive nanosystems. Applicants wishing further information on the field of the prize are referred to the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems and the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (Wiley Interscience, 1992).
Awards
The prizewinner for Theory and Experimental will each receive $5,000.
Distinctions between the annually awarded Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes and the Feynman Grand Prize
2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize
Previously awarded Feynman Prizes
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