Nanotechnology & materials
Ravi Kane
Created a highly potent anthrax treatment in which each drug molecule blocks multiple toxin molecules rather than just one.
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Marcel Bruchez
Cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers
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Teri Odom
Patterned silicon to create minuscule "beakers" that hold only zeptoliters.
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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.
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Erik Scher
Works on inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials.