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Gaming the Future: The Book!

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A brief history:

The Feynman Prizes are named in honor of the physicist Richard Feynman. In 1959, Feynman gave a talk titled ‘There’s Plenty Of Room At The Bottom’, which is considered by many industry advocates to have inspired the field of nanotechnology itself. 

About:

With the Feynman Prizes, Foresight Institute wishes to recognize recent and brilliant achievements that contribute deeply to the field of Nanotechnology. 

Nobel Prize & Feynman Prize Winner: Sir J. Frazer Stoddart

In 2016, Sir J. Frazer Stoddart won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The same piece of work was awarded the Feynman Prize for Experiment by Foresight Institute nine years earlier!

Winners
2022

Theoretical

James R. Chelikowsky

Experimental

Sergei
V. Kalinin

Student

Dr. Emanuele Penocchio

Press Release 2022

«…the rewards awaiting those who achieve significant nanotechnology breakthroughs will be far greater than the prize itself.»

K. Eric Drexler

Founder of the Feynman Prizes

Grand

Prize

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.

Find out more

Theory

Prize

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.

 

Experiment

Prize

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.

Student

Prize

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.

Winners
Previous years

2021

Theoretical:

Kendall N. Houk (UCLA)

Experimental:

Anne-Sophie Duwez (University of Liège)

Student:

Yuanning Feng (Northwestern University)

2020

Theoretical:

Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra (University of California)

Experimental:

Prof. Hao Yan (Arizona State University)

Student:

Dr. Liang Feng (Northwestern University)

2019

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)

Student:

Yuxing Yao (Caltech and Harvard)

2018

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)

Student:

Qi Li (Carnegie Mellon University, PA)

2017

Theoretical:

Giovanni Zoccchi (Zocchi Lab for Molecular Biophysics, UCLA)

Experimental:

William Shih (Shih Laboratory Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group, Harvard)

Student:

Hai Qian (Dartmouth College, NH)

2016

Theoretical:

Bartosz A. Grzybowski (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Experimental:

Franz J. Giessibl (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Student:

Conrad Pfeiffer

2015

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

Student:

Chuyang Cheng

2014

Theoretical:

Amanda S. Barnard (Australia’s Office of the Chief Executive (OCE), The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))

Experimental:

Joseph W. Lyding (University of Illinois and Beckman Institute)

2013

Theoretical:

David N. Beratan (Duke University)

Experimental:

Alexander K. Zettl (U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Student:

Jonathan C. Barnes

2012

Theoretical:

David Soloveichik (University of California, San Francisco)

Experimental:

is the team of Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp (IBM Research in Zurich; Dr. Repp is now at Regensburg University)

Student:

David Walker

2011

Theoretical:

Raymond Astumian (University of Maine, USA)

Experimental:

Leonhard Grill (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Research School, Germany)

2010

Theoretical:

Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University)

Experimental:

Masakazu Aono (MANA Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)

2009

Theoretical:

Robert A. Freitas Jr. (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)

Experimental:

Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Masayuki Abe (Osaka University), and Oscar Custance (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)

2008

Theoretical:

George C. Schatz (Northwestern University)

Experimental:

James M. Tour (Rice University)

2007

Theoretical:

David A. Leigh (University of Edinburgh)

Experimental:

J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California – Los Angeles)

Student:

Fung Suong Ou

Foresight Communication Prize:

Robert A. Freitas Jr.

2006

Theoretical:

Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)

Experimental:

Erik Winfree and Paul W.K. Rothemund (California Institute of Technology)

Student:

Berhane Temelso

Foresight Communication Prize:

John Storrs Hall

2005

Theoretical:

Christian Joachim (Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France)

Experimental:

Christian Schafmeister (University of Pittsburgh)

Student:

Christopher Levins

Foresight Communication Prize:

Rocky Rawstern

Foresight Government Prize:

Congressman Mike Honda

2004

Theoretical:

David Baker (University of Washington) and Brian Kuhlman (University of North Carolina)

Experimental:

Homme Hellinga (Duke University)

Student:

Damian Allis

Foresight Communication Prize:

Howard Lovy

2003

Theoretical:

Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley)

Experimental:

Carlo Montemagno (University of California at Los Angeles)

Student:

Ahmet Yildiz

Foresight Communication Prize:

Tim Harper and Paul Holister

2002

Theoretical:

Don Brenner (North Carolina State University)

Experimental:

Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)

Student:

Yi Cui

Foresight Communication Prize:

David Pescovitz

2001

Theoretical:

Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)

Experimental:

Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)

Student:

Jing Kong

Foresight Communication Prize:

Ivan Amato

2000

Theoretical:

Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)

Experimental:

R. Stanley Williams (HP Labs), Philip Kuekes (HP Labs) and James Heath (UCLA)

Student:

Christopher Love

Foresight Communication Prize:

Ron Dagani

1999

Theoretical:

William A. Goddard III, Dr. Tahir Cagin, and Ms. Yue Qi, (Caltech)

Experimental:

Phaedon Avouris (IBM)

Student:

Anita Goel

1998

Theoretical:

Ralph C. Merkle (Zyvex, LLC), Stephen Walch (ELORET NASA Ames)

Experimental:

M. Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)

Student:

Fotis Nifiatis

1997

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

Experimental:

James K. Gimzewski (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Reto Schlittler (IBM), Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS)

Student:

Phil Collins

1995

Foresight Feynman Prize

Nadrian C. Seeman (New York University)

1993

Foresight Feynman Prize

Charles Musgrave (Caltech)

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