Announcing the Winners and Finalists of the 2016 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 08:51
in Physics & Chemistry
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today announced the three winners and six finalists of the 2016 Blavatnik Regional Awards. The winners include an ecologist who has advanced our understanding of how forest ecosystems recover or die during drought; a physical chemist who studies electron transport in solar energy capture and conversion; and a condensed matter physicist who has provided theoretical guidance to experiments that have led to the direct observation of Majorana fermions. The six finalists perform pioneering research in diverse areas including astrophysics, engineering, biochemistry and structural biology, molecular and cellular biology, theoretical chemistry, and biomedical engineering.