2021 NOMINATIONS: FORESIGHT FEYNMAN PRIZE & DISTINGUISHED STUDENT AWARD

2021 Nominations for Foresight Feynman Prize & Distinguished Student Award are open.

These Foresight prizes are given in honor of Richard P. Feynman who, in 1959, gave a visionary talk at Caltech in which he suggested that “the problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed — a development which I think cannot be avoided.”

The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory

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

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

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.

Research areas considered relevant to molecular nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing 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

The deadline for submitting nominations is May 18, 2021, at 12.00 am PST. The winners of this year’s prizes will be announced at an appropriate Foresight event in the fall of 2021.

You may submit your own work or nominate a colleague who deserves the Prize. Individual submissions are preferred, but teams of up to three will be considered. A committee chaired by a previous Feynman Prize recipient will be asked to select this year’s honorees.

Nomination form, more information about the Prizes and previous winners can be found at https://foresight.org/foresight-prizes.