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Alan T. Waterman Award
The Alan T. Waterman Award, named after Alan Tower Waterman, is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40, or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Science Foundation. In addition to the medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 to be used at the institution of their choice over a period of five years for advanced scientific research. History of the Award The United States Congress established the annual award in August 1975 to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Science Foundation and to honor its first director, Alan T. Waterman. The annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. Eligibility and nomination process Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Prior to the 2018 competition, candidates must have been 35 years of age or younger or not more than 7 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Tower Waterman
Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist. Biography Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, he grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts. His father was a professor of physics at Smith College. Alan also became a physicist, doing his undergraduate and doctoral work at Princeton University from which he obtained his Ph.D. in 1916. He joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, and married Vassar graduate Mary Mallon (sister of H. Neil Mallon) there in August 1917. He later became a professor at Yale University, and moved to North Haven, Connecticut in 1929. During World War II, he took leave of absence from Yale to become director of field operations for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the family moved to Cambridge, MA. He continued his government work and became deputy chief of the Office of Naval Research. In 1950, he was appointed by President Truman as first director of the U.S. National Science Foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel B
''Daniel'' is an anonymous Old English poem based loosely on the Biblical Book of Daniel, found in the Junius Manuscript. The author and the date of ''Daniel'' are unknown. Critics have argued that Cædmon is the author of the poem, but this theory has been since disproven. ''Daniel'', as it is preserved, is 764 lines long. There have been numerous arguments that there was originally more to this poem than survives today. The majority of scholars, however, dismiss these arguments with the evidence that the text finishes at the bottom of a page, and that there is a simple point, which translators assume indicates the end of a complete sentence. ''Daniel'' contains a plethora of lines which Old English scholars refer to as “ hypermetric” or long. Daniel is one of the four major Old Testament prophets, along with Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The biblical story works through questions of faith and persecution; the poem deals mainly with pride. The Old English Daniel is a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feng Zhang
Feng Zhang (; born October 22, 1981) is a Chinese-born American biochemist. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has appointments with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (where he is a core member). He is most well known for his role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. Early life and education Zhang was born in China in 1981, where both his parents were computer programmers. At age 11, he moved to Iowa with his mother. He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School and Central Academy in Des Moines, graduating in 2000. He earned his B.A. in chemistry and physics in 2004 from Harvard University, where he worked with Xiaowei Zhuang. He then received his PhD in chemical and biological engineering from Stanford University in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù (born September 27, 1978) is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, plasmonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces. He has co-authored over 650 journal papers and 35 book chapters, and he holds 11 U.S. patents. Career biography Andrea Alù received his ''laurea'' (2001), MS (2003), and PhD (2007) in electronic engineering from Roma Tre University. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor. In 2015 he was also the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) visiting professor at the AMOLF Institute in the Netherlands. In January 2018, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Dincă
Mircea Dincă (born 1980) is a Romanian Americans, Romanian-American inorganic chemist. He is the Andrew Stewart 1886 Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. At Princeton, Dincă leads a research group that focuses on the synthesis of functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which possess conductive, catalytic, and other material-favorable properties. Early life and education Mircea Dincă was born in Făgăraș, Romania. His passion for chemistry began in his chemistry class in 7th grade, where he had a "dedicated teacher that did spectacular demonstrations with relatively limited regard for safety". In 1998, he represented Romania at the International Chemistry Olympiad, International Science Olympiad (Chemistry) in Yakutsk, Russia, where he won first prize. After high school, Dincă was offered a scholarship from Princeton University and moved to New Jersey in 1999. At Princeton, he worked with Jeffrey Schwartz (chemist), Jeffrey Schwartz, conducting research on m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pardon
John Vincent Pardon (born June 1989) is an American mathematician and works on geometry and topology. He is primarily known for having solved Gromov's problem on distortion of knots, for which he was awarded the 2012 Morgan Prize. He is a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook, New York and a full professor of mathematics at Princeton University. Education and accomplishments Pardon's first math teacher was his mother, Joyce Eileen Maggio Pardon. She introduced him to basic arithmetic, trigonometry, and calculus. His interest in math was also fostered through conversations with his father, William Pardon, who is a mathematics professor at Duke University. When he was a high school student at the Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina he took classes at Duke. John Pardon was a three-time gold medalist at the International Olympiad in Informatics, in 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2007, he placed second in the Intel Science Talent Search compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baratunde A
Baratunde is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Baratunde A. Cola (born 1981), American nanotechnologist * Baratunde Thurston Baratunde Rafiq Thurston (; born September 11, 1977) is an American writer, comedian, and commentator. Thurston co-founded the black political blog ''Jack and Jill Politics'', whose coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention was archived ... (born 1977), American comedian {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Olson
Kristina Reiss Olson is a psychologist and a professor at Princeton University. She is known for her research on the development of social categories, transgender youth, and variation in human gender development. Olson was recipient of the 2016 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science for transformative early career contributions, and the 2014 SAGE Young Scholars Award. Olson received the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation in 2018, and was the first psychological scientist to receive this prestigious award honoring early-career scientists. Olson is a member of the 2018 cohort of MacArthur fellows. Biography Kristina Olson received her B.A. in Psychology and African and African-American Studies from Washington University in 2003. She completed her PhD from Harvard University in 2008, where she worked with Elizabeth Spelke, Mahzarin Banaji, and Carol S. Dweck. After graduating from Harvard, Olson joined the faculty of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Braverman (mathematician)
Mark Braverman (; born 1984) is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year. In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award. In 2022, he won the IMU Abacus Medal. He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008, under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After this, he did post-doctoral research at Microsoft Research and then joined the faculty at University of Toronto. In 2011, he joined the Princeton University department of computer science. In 2014, he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Interactive information and coding theory'' at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b .... Braverman is the son of math ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Dionne
Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently full professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and by courtesy, of radiology, and also a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. She is Deputy Director of Q-NEXT, a National Quantum Information Science funded by the DOE. From 2020-2024, she served as Stanford's inaugural Vice Provost of Shared Facilities, where she advanced funding, infrastructure, education, and staff support within shared facilities. During this time, she also was Director of the Department of Energy's "Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits" Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), which strives to create thermodynamic engines driven by light. She is also an editor of the ACS journal ''Nano Letters''. Dionne's research develops photonic materials and methods to observe and control chemical and biological processes as they unfold with nanometer scale resolution, emphasizing critical challenges in glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dabiri
John Oluseun Dabiri is a Nigerian-American engineer and professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he holds joint appointments in aerospace and mechanical engineering. Dabiri Lab ''John Dabiri''. Retrieved 27 September 2019.His academic work includes research in unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with applications in biology, renewable energy, and environmental systems. His studies on biological fluid dynamics have included investigations of jellyfish propulsion. Dabiri also designed a vertical-axis wind turbine system influenced by the movement patterns of schooling fish to improve wind energy efficiency. Early life and education Dabiri’s interest in engineering was influenced by observing his father's technical work dur ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Balskus
Emily P. Balskus is an American chemical biologist, enzymologist, microbiologist, and biochemist born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1980. She has been on the faculty of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology department of Harvard University since 2011 and is currently the Morris Kahn Professor. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and three book chapters. Since 2012 she has been invited to give over 170 lectures, has held positions on various editorial boards, and served as a reviewer for ACS and Nature journals among others. Balskus also currently serves as a consultant for Novartis, Kintai Therapeutics, and Merck & Co. Early life and education Balskus was already interested in a potential career in science in elementary school where she conducted a science fair experiment on dilution and conservation of matter. Later in high school she was introduced to chemistry and was "captivated by the excitement of manipulating molecules in lab." Later in her scientific career this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
