Nanotechnology & materials
William Taylor
Spearheads efforts to commercialize the "plasmatron," a pollution control device that converts diesel fuel to hydrogen, cutting nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90 percent.
Global
Martin Colpepper
Builds the machines needed to make high-quality, low-cost nanofabrication a reality.
Global
Dustin Carr
Creates nanoscale silicon devices that can detect subatomic-scale movements.
Global
Marcel Bruchez
Cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers
Global
Kinneret Keren
Exploits biology-based self-assembly to build molecular electronics. She created a self-assembled molecular-electronic device -- a carbon nanotube transistor -- using a DNA template.