Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology

Der Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology ist ein vom Foresight Institute in Palo Alto seit 1993 verliehener Preis für Nanotechnologie und Nanowissenschaften. Zuerst wurde er alle zwei Jahre vergeben, seit 1997 jährlich.

Er ist nach Richard Feynman benannt, dessen Vortrag There is plenty of room at the bottom von 1959 vielfach als visionäre Vorwegnahme der Nanotechnologie-Revolution gilt. Der Preis ist mit 5000 Dollar dotiert und wird in den Kategorien Experiment und Theorie vergeben.

Das 1986 von Eric Drexler gegründete Foresight Institute ist eine Non-profit-Organisation zur Förderung der Nanowissenschaften. Sie lobt auch einen großen Preis aus von je 250.000 Dollar für die erste Person, die einen Nanoroboter-Arm mit präziser Steuerung und einen 8-Bit-Addierer im Nanobereich realisiert.

Preisträger JahrPreisträger Institution Begründung1993Charles MusgraveCalifornia Institute of Technology“for his work on modeling a hydrogen abstraction tool useful in nanotechnology”1995Nadrian C. SeemanNew York University“for developing ways to construct three-dimensional structures, including cubes and more complex polyhedra, from synthesized DNA molecules”

Kategorie Experiment

JahrPreisträger Institution Begründung1997James K. GimzewskiIBM-Forschungslabor Rüschlikon bei Zürich“for work using scanning probe microscopes to manipulate molecules”Reto SchlittlerChristian JoachimInstitut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (CEMES)1998M. Reza GhadiriScripps Research Institute“for groundbreaking work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization, the same forces used to assemble the molecular machine systems found in nature”1999Phaedon AvourisThomas J. Watson Research Center“[for] the development of carbon nanotubes for potential computing device applications”2000Richard Stanley WilliamsHewlett Packard Laboratories“for building a molecular switch, a major step toward their long-term goal of building entire memory chips that are just a hundred nanometers wide”Philip KuekesJames R. HeathUniversity of California, Los Angeles2001Charles M. LieberHarvard University“for his pioneering experimental work in molecular nanotechnology which included seminal contributions to the synthesis and characterization of the unique physical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanowires”2002Chad A. MirkinNorthwestern University“for opening up new possibilities for the fabrication of molecular machine systems by selectively functionalizing nanoparticles and surfaces, particularly with DNA, enabling the self-assembly of new structures which move us closer to the goal of molecular manufacturing”2003Carlo MontemagnoUniversity of California, Los Angeles“for his pioneering research into methods of integrating single molecule biological motors with nano-scale silicon devices, which opens up new possibilities for nanomachines”2004Homme HellingaDuke University“for his achievement in the engineering of atomically precise devices capable of precise manipulation of other molecular structures”2005Christian SchafmeisterUniversity of Pittsburgh“for his work in developing a novel technology synthesizing macromolecules of intermediate sizes (between 1000 and 10,000 Daltons) with designed shapes and functions”2006Erik WinfreeCalifornia Institute of Technology“for their work demonstrating that DNA tiles can be designed to form crystalline nanotubes that exhibit a stiffness greater than the biological protein nanofilament actin, [and for having] established that algorithmic self-assembly could work well enough to generate non-trivial non-periodic patterns”Paul W. K. Rothemund2007Fraser StoddartUniversity of California, Los Angeles“[for having] pioneered the synthesis and assembly of unique active molecular machines for manufacturing into practical nanoscale devices”2008James TourRice University“for the Synthesis of Nanocars... and other molecular machines [which] is providing critical insight in investigations of bottom-up molecular manufacturing”2009Yoshiaki SugimotoUniversität Ōsaka“in recognition of their pioneering experimental demonstrations of mechanosynthesis, specifically the use of atomic resolution dynamic force microscopy – also known as non-contact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) – for vertical and lateral manipulation of single atoms on semiconductor surfaces”Masayuki AbeOscar CustanceNational Institute for Materials Science, Japan2010Masakazu AonoInternational Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA Center), National Institute for Materials Science in Japan“in recognition of his pioneering and continuing work, including research into the manipulation of atoms, the multiprobe STM and AFM, the atomic switch, and single-molecule-level chemical control including ultradense molecular data storage and molecular wiring; and his inspiration of an entire generation of researchers who have made their own ground-breaking contributions to nanotechnology”2011Leonhard GrillFritz-Haber-Institut“in recognition of his pioneering and continuing work on manipulating and structuring functional matter at the atomic scale”2012Gerhard MeyerIBM Forschungslabor Zürich“[for] their remarkable experiments advancing the frontiers of scanning probe microscopy. They were the first to produce images of molecular orbitals and charges detailed enough to identify the structure of individual molecules, as well as metal-molecule complexes. They have also been able to precisely make and break individual chemical bonds.”Leo GrossJascha Repp2013David N. BeratanDuke University“The award recognizes Prof. Beratan's development of theoretical approaches to understand the function of complex molecular and macromolecular assemblies and machines.” 2014 Joseph W. Lyding University of Illinois “Development of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) technology” 2015 Michelle Y. Simmons University of New South Wales “Fabricating electronic devices with atomic-precision accuracy” 2016 Franz J. Giessibl Universität Regensburg “…pioneered major advancements in scanning probe microscopy for imaging and manipulating individual atoms, including the first achievement of atomic resolution by frequency modulation atomic force microscopy, inventing the qPlus sensor-based atomic force microscopy technique, and achieving subatomic resolution and the visualization of individual chemical bonds” 2017 William M. Shih Harvard University “…the total mastery of the design and synthesis of three dimensional DNA nanostructures. His work extended DNA origami from 2D to 3D - a breakthrough in the field. Shih entered DNA nanotechnology with a Nature article demonstrating the folding of a single strand of DNA; it was on the strength of this Nature paper that Shih got his position at Harvard. Thanks in large part to Shih's efforts over the last decade, programmable self-assembly of 3D DNA nanoshapes the size of a virus now is routine. His groundbreaking studies in Nature and Science that generalized DNA origami to solid three-dimensional structures were published in 2009.” 2018 Christopher Lutz IBM Research “For advances in manipulating atoms and small molecules on surfaces and employing them for data storage and computation.” Andreas Heinrich IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience 2019 Lulu QianForesight Institute Awards 2019 Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology to Qian, Galli; awards presented by Nobelist, Sir Fraser Stoddart. Pressemeldung vom 30. September 2019 auf prweb.com; abgerufen am 14. Januar 2020. California Institute of Technology  2020Massimiliano Di VentraUniversity of California, San Diego2021Anne-Sophie DuwezUniversité de Liège2022Sergei V. KalininUniversity of Tennessee2023James J. CollinsMassachusetts Institute of Technology2024Saw Wai HlaOhio University2025 Ben L. FeringaRijksuniversiteit Groningen

Kategorie Theorie