Energy Lee T. Todd, Jr., Entrepreneur, past president of the University of Kentucky Philip Welkhoff, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Christian Wentz, electrical engineer & entrepreneur Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate 2001 Ned Wingreen In 2018, some 30 Hertz Fellows were recognized by MIT Technology Review, Forbes, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Academy of Sciences and many others for outstanding work in their respective fields. Thesis Prize The Hertz Foundation requires that each Fellow furnish the Foundation a copy of his or her doctoral dissertation upon receiving the Ph.D. The Foundation's Thesis Prize Committee examines the Ph.D. dissertations for their overall excellence and pertinence to high-impact applications of the physical sciences. Each Thesis Prize winner receives an honorarium of $5,000. 2017 Kyle Loh, A Developmental Roadmap for the Diversification of Human Tissue fates from Pluripotent Cells 2016 Paul Tillberg, Expansion Microscopy: Improving Imaging Through Uniform Tissue Expansion 2015 Jeffrey Weber, Far-From-Equilibrium Phenomena in Protein Dynamics 2014 Matthew Pelliccione, Local Imaging of High Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Virtual Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 2014 Joseph Rosenthal, Engineered Outer Membrane Vesicles Derived from Probiotic Escherichia Coli Nissle 1917 as Recobinant Subunit Antigen Carriers for the Development of Pathogen-Mimetic Vaccines 2013 Alex Hegyi, Nanodiamond Imaging: A New Molecular Imaging Approach 2012 Dario Amodei, Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior of Neural Circuits 2012 Vincent Holmberg, Semiconductor Nanowires: From a Nanoscale System to a Macroscopic Material 2012 Daniel Slichter, Quantum Jumps and Measurement Backaction in a Superconducting Qubit 2011 Anna Bershteyn, Lipid-coated micro- and nanoparticles as a biomimetic vaccine delivery platform 2011 Kevin Esvelt, A System for the Continuous Directed Evolution of Biomolecules 2011 Monika Schleier-Smith, Cavity-Enabled Spin Squeezing for a Quantum-Enhanced Atomic Clock 2010 Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Evolution and the Emergence of Structure 2009 Paul Podsiadlo, Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Nanostructures Composites: Mechanics and Applications 2009 Mikhail Shapiro, Genetically Engineered Sensors for Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging using MRI 2008 Alexander Wissner-Gross, Physically Programmable Surfaces 2007 Lilian Childress, Coherent Manipulation of Single Quantum Systems in the Solid State 2007 Christopher Loose, The Production, Design, and Application of Antimicrobial Peptides 2007 Cindy Regal, Experimental Realization of BCS-BEC Crossover Physics with a Fermi Gas of Atoms 2006 Edward Boyden, Task-Selective Neural Mechanisms of Memory Encoding 2005 Cameron G. R. Geddes, Plasma Channel Guided Laser Wakefield Accelerator 2004 Youssef Marzouk, Vorticity Structure and Evolution in a Transverse Jet with New Algorithms for Scalable Particle Simulation 2003 David Kent IV,