Professor Martin Andrew Green
AFFILIATION University of New South Wales, Australia SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering the breakthrough in green energy production with the invention of solar cells enhanced by Passivated Emitter and Rear Contact (PERC) technology The improvement of the solar cells efficiency ushered in an era of productive renewable energy harvestation, thereby contributing to a more equitable […]
Professor Stanley Whittingham
AFFILIATION Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Discovery of the principles behind the Lithium-ion batteries, identified Lithium ion as the most promising charge carrier. Prof. Stanley Whittingham is the pioneer who uncovered the operational principles of Lithium-ion batteries. Stemming from his breakthrough in 1974, he built the first Lithium-ion […]
Professor Akira Yoshino
AFFILIATION Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University, Japan SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Development of carbon black as anode in the Lithium ion batteries Professor Akira Yoshino stands out for his pioneering development of carbon black as a Lithium-ion batteries anode. Leveraging his study of polymeric material, he applied these discoveries to the use of carbon […]
Professor Rachid Yazami
AFFILIATION KVI Holdings, Singapore SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Investigated electrochemical intercalation of graphite and the thermodynamics of the battery charging/discharging processes Professor Rachid Yazami pioneered the exploration of reversible electrochemical intercalation of Lithium-ions into graphite, laying the foundation for the development of modern Lithium-ion batteries. His research delved into combining nanomaterials such as nano-silicon, carbon […]
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA
BIOGRAPHY CoFounder and CTO, Inrupt Inc Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation Professor Emeritus in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Co-Founder, Open Data Institute Director of World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee, an Oxford graduate and British computer […]
Dr. Vinton Gray Cerf
BIOGRAPHY Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; former President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Dr. Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf, born 23 June 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American computer scientist who is considered one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’. He obtained a BSc in mathematics at Stanford University […]
Dr. Emmanuel Desurvire
BIOGRAPHY VP Thales Technical Fellow and Scientific Advisor at Thales Research and Technology. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbia University, and Alcatel. Emmanuel Desurvire (Ph.D, Sc.D, IEEE Fellow, Alcatel-Lucent Fellow and VP Thales Technical Fellow) has obtained a M.S. degree in theoretical physics at the university of Pierre & Marie […]
Dr. Robert Elliot Kahn
BIOGRAPHY Chairman, CEO and President of Corporation for National Research Initiatives Dr. Robert Elliot (Bob) Kahn, born 23 December 1938, is an American internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who, together with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which make up the fundamental architecture at the heart of […]
Professor Sir David Neil Payne, CBE, FRS, FREng
BIOGRAPHY Professor at the University of Southampton and Director of the Zepler Institute for Photonics/Optoelectronics Research Centre. Co-Director, the Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chairman Emeritus of the Marconi Society PI of the National Manufacturing Hub in Future Photonics Prof. Payne is an internationally distinguished research pioneer in photonics, having been in the field […]
Professor Pieter R. Cullis
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: Integrated Nanotherapeutics and University of British Columbia, Canada Pieter R. Cullis, Ph.D. FRSC is the Director of Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the NanoMedicines Research Group, UBC. […]
Professor Drew Weissman
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert at Penn Medicine, has been studying RNA for use in vaccines for over 15 years. He has dreamed about the seemingly endless possibilities of treating diseases with custom-made mRNA. However, he didn’t expect […]
Dr Katalin Karikó
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: BioNTech SE, Germany; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA; University of Szeged, Hungary Katalin Karikó was born in 1955 into the family of a butcher in Kisújszállás, a town some 150 kilometers east from Budapest. Karikó went to the local public schools and has praised her […]
