The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an Americannon-profit organization that awards fellowships to Ph.D.students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The fellowship provides $250,000 of support over five years. The goal is for Fellows to be financially independent and free from traditional restrictions of their academic departments in order to promote innovation in collaboration with leading professors in the field. Through a rigorous application and interview process, the Hertz Foundation seeks to identify young scientists and engineers with the potential to change the world for the better and supports their research endeavors from an early stage. Fellowship recipients pledge to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency.
The Hertz Foundation was established in 1957[1] with the goal of supporting applied sciences education. The founder, John D. Hertz, was a European emigrant[3] whose family arrived in the United States with few resources, when the Hertz was five years old. Hertz matured into a prominent entrepreneur and business leader (founder of the Yellow Cab Company and owner of the Hertz corporation) as the automotive age burgeoned in Chicago. Initially, the Foundation granted undergraduate scholarships to qualified and financially limited mechanical and electrical engineering students. In 1963, the undergraduate scholarship program was phased out and replaced with postgraduate fellowships leading to the award of the Ph.D. The scope of the studies supported by the fellowships was also enlarged to include applied sciences and other engineering disciplines.
To be eligible for a Hertz Fellowships, a student must be citizen or permanent resident of the United States of America. Eligible applicants must be students of the applied sciences, math or engineering, and desire to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the applied sciences, math or engineering. College seniors as well as graduate students already pursuing a Ph.D. may apply.
The application period opens in August, when electronic applications are made available by the Hertz Foundation. All Fellowship applicants are notified by mail of the Foundation's action on their application on or before April 1.
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.[15]
2022 Hannah Larson, Brill--Noether theory over the Hurwitz space
2021 Kurtis Carsch, Ligand Field Inversion in Sterically Confined Copper Architectures
2020 Ravi Sheth, New Tools for Understanding and Engineering Complex Microbial Communities
2019 Jenny Schloss, Optimizing Nitrogen-Vacancy Diamond Magnetic Sensors and Imagers for Broadband Sensitivity
2019 Sam Rodriques, Mapping Cell Types, Dynamics, and Connections in Neural Circuits
2018 Eric Larson, The Maximal Rank Conjecture
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 Recombinant 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
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, New Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms to Efficiently Utilize Massively Parallel Computers
2002 Daniel Steck, Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics
2001 Krishna S. Nayak, Fast Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2000 Joseph H. Thywissen, Internal State Manipulation for Neutral Atom Lithography
1999 Andrew J. Thiel, Detection of DNA Hybridization to Oligonucleotide Arrays on Gold Surfaces Using In Situ Surface Plasmon Resonance and Fluorescence Imaging Techniques
1998 Adam T. Woolley, Microfabricated Integrated DNA Analysis Systems
1997 Deirdre Olynick, In-Situ Studies of Copper Nano-Particles Using a Novel Tandem Ultra-High Vacuum Particle Production Chamber Transmission Electron Microscope
1997 Eli N. Glezer, Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics in Solids
1996 Andrew H. Miklich, Low-Frequency Noise in High-T2 Superconductor Josephson Junctions, SQUIDs, and Magnetometers
1996 Krishna Shenoy, Monolithic Optoelectronic VLSI Circuit Design and Fabrication for Optical Interconnects
1995 Eric Altschuler, The Movement Rehearsal Paradigm is a Mental Communication Channel
1994 Richard D. Braatz, Robust Loopshaping for Process Control
^"Kathleen Fisher". Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^"Leonidas Guibas". The Hertz Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
^"Nate Lewis, PhD, 1977 Hertz Fellow". The Hertz Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
^"David Kriegman". The Hertz Foundation. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
^Emma Pierson's webpage https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~emmapierson/images/resume.pdf. Retrieved 30 October 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^"Robert Sedgewick". Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^Saijel Kishan (1 October 2015). "Two Sigma Hires Google's Spector as Chief Technology Officer". Bloomberg.com.
^Celebrating 50 Years of the Hertz Graduate Fellowship(PDF). The Hertz Foundation. 2013.
^"General Officer Announcements". West Point Association of Graduates. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
^"Lee T. Todd, Jr". University of Kentucky. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
^"Hertz Thesis Prize". Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Hertz Foundation news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2019 Learn how and when to remove this message The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an American non profit organization that awards fellowships to Ph D students in the applied physical biological and engineering sciences The fellowship provides 250 000 of support over five years The goal is for Fellows to be financially independent and free from traditional restrictions of their academic departments in order to promote innovation in collaboration with leading professors in the field Through a rigorous application and interview process the Hertz Foundation seeks to identify young scientists and engineers with the potential to change the world for the better and supports their research endeavors from an early stage Fellowship recipients pledge to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency Fannie and John Hertz FoundationFounded1957 1 FounderFannie and John D HertzFocusApplied science and engineeringLocationLivermore CaliforniaArea servedUnited StatesMethodPh D FellowshipsKey peopleRobbee Baker Kosak PresidentDavid J Galas Ph D Chairman of the BoardPhilip Welkhoff Ph D Senior Fellowship InterviewerRevenue 2018 5 055 682 2 Expenses 2018 4 364 123 2 Websitehertzfoundation wbr org Contents 1 Hertz Fellowship 1 1 History 1 2 Competitiveness 1 3 Eligibility and application 1 4 Notable Fellows 2 Thesis Prize 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHertz Fellowship editHistory edit This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Hertz Foundation news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2019 Learn how and when to remove this message The Hertz Foundation was established in 1957 1 with the goal of supporting applied sciences education The founder John D Hertz was a European emigrant 3 whose family arrived in the United States with few resources when the Hertz was five years old Hertz matured into a prominent entrepreneur and business leader founder of the Yellow Cab Company and owner of the Hertz corporation as the automotive age burgeoned in Chicago Initially the Foundation granted undergraduate scholarships to qualified and financially limited mechanical and electrical engineering students In 1963 the undergraduate scholarship program was phased out and replaced with postgraduate fellowships leading to the award of the Ph D The scope of the studies supported by the fellowships was also enlarged to include applied sciences and other engineering disciplines Competitiveness edit For the 2017 2018 academic year nearly 800 applicants applied for 10 spots giving it an acceptance rate of 1 5 Since 1960 the foundation has made awards to 1 271 fellows with 309 fellows affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 255 with Stanford University 104 with the University of California Berkeley 95 with the California Institute of Technology and 76 with Harvard University These top five universities account for nearly two thirds of all fellows 4 Institution Fellows 1960 2022 4 MIT 309 Stanford 255 Berkeley 104 Caltech 95 Harvard 76 Eligibility and application edit To be eligible for a Hertz Fellowships a student must be citizen or permanent resident of the United States of America Eligible applicants must be students of the applied sciences math or engineering and desire to pursue a Ph D degree in the applied sciences math or engineering College seniors as well as graduate students already pursuing a Ph D may apply The application period opens in August when electronic applications are made available by the Hertz Foundation All Fellowship applicants are notified by mail of the Foundation s action on their application on or before April 1 Notable Fellows edit Lars Bildsten Director Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of California Santa Barbara Manjul Bhargava Fields Medalist 2014 Eric Boe NASA Astronaut Gregory S Boebinger physicist Florida State University Stephen P Boyd Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University Ed Boyden 2016 Breakthrough Prize James E Brau Mung Chiang Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor at Princeton University 2013 Alan T Waterman Award recipient Isaac Chuang quantum computing pioneer Kevin M Esvelt Doyne Farmer an originator of econophysics Mike Farmwald Founder of Rambus Alex Filippenko Richard amp Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and Professor of Astronomy at the University of California Berkeley Kathleen Fisher Deputy Director at DARPA s Information Innovation Office and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University 5 Alice P Gast President Imperial College of London Kenneth M Golden Fellow of Explorers Club Jeff Gore physicist and ecologist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leonidas J Guibas researcher in computational geometry and Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University 6 Nathan Lewis Professor California Institute of Technology 7 Kevin Karplus Professor University of California Santa Cruz David Kriegman 8 researcher in computer vision and Professor of Computer Science at University of California San Diego Peter Hagelstein Inventor X ray laser Danny Hillis Inventor entrepreneur and author Andrew Houck Quantum Computist Tianhui Michael Li first Data Scientist in residence at Andreessen Horowitz founder of The Data Incubator Po Shen Loh Coach of USA International Mathematical Olympiad Team and Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University Derek Lidow Founder of iSuppli Corp Robert Lourie Head of Futures research at Renaissance Technologies John C Mather Nobel Laureate 2006 Mike Montemerlo Winning Team Leader DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Nathan Myhrvold Founder Intellectual Ventures former CTO Microsoft Dianne P O Leary applied mathematician Sabrina Pasterski Young Physicist General Ellen M Pawlikowski Commander Air Force Material Command Emma Pierson Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University 9 Joseph Polchinski Fundamental Physics Prize 2017 William H Press Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory Robert Sedgewick William O Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University 10 Katelin Schutz Kenneth L Shepard Ray Sidney Google entrepreneur Alfred Spector CTO of Two Sigma and former VP of Research at Google 11 Rich C Staats 12 Commanding General United States Army Reserve Innovation Command 13 Robert Tarjan Turing Award 1986 Astro Teller Director Google X Michael Telson Former CFO at the Department of Energy Lee T Todd Jr Entrepreneur past president of the University of Kentucky 14 Philip Welkhoff Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation Christian Wentz electrical engineer amp 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 editThe 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 15 2022 Hannah Larson Brill Noether theory over the Hurwitz space 2021 Kurtis Carsch Ligand Field Inversion in Sterically Confined Copper Architectures 2020 Ravi Sheth New Tools for Understanding and Engineering Complex Microbial Communities 2019 Jenny Schloss Optimizing Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Magnetic Sensors and Imagers for Broadband Sensitivity 2019 Sam Rodriques Mapping Cell Types Dynamics and Connections in Neural Circuits 2018 Eric Larson The Maximal Rank Conjecture 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 Recombinant 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 New Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms to Efficiently Utilize Massively Parallel Computers 2002 Daniel Steck Quantum Chaos Transport and Decoherence in Atom Optics 2001 Krishna S Nayak Fast Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2000 Joseph H Thywissen Internal State Manipulation for Neutral Atom Lithography 1999 Andrew J Thiel Detection of DNA Hybridization to Oligonucleotide Arrays on Gold Surfaces Using In Situ Surface Plasmon Resonance and Fluorescence Imaging Techniques 1998 Adam T Woolley Microfabricated Integrated DNA Analysis Systems 1997 Deirdre Olynick In Situ Studies of Copper Nano Particles Using a Novel Tandem Ultra High Vacuum Particle Production Chamber Transmission Electron Microscope 1997 Eli N Glezer Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics in Solids 1996 Andrew H Miklich Low Frequency Noise in High T2 Superconductor Josephson Junctions SQUIDs and Magnetometers 1996 Krishna Shenoy Monolithic Optoelectronic VLSI Circuit Design and Fabrication for Optical Interconnects 1995 Eric Altschuler The Movement Rehearsal Paradigm is a Mental Communication Channel 1994 Richard D Braatz Robust Loopshaping for Process Control 1992 Kenneth L Shepard Electron Transport in Mesoscopic Conductors 1992 Robert C Barrett Development and Applications of Atomic Force Spectroscopy 1990 Scott L Rakestraw Monoclonal Antibody Targeted Laser Photolysis of Tumor Tissue 1990 H Paul Shuch Near Midair Collisions as an Indicator of General Aviation Collision Risk 1989 W Neil McCasland Sensor and Actuator Selection for Fault Tolerant Control of Flexible Structures 1988 Michael Reed Si SiO2 Interface Trap Anneal Kinetics 1988 Eric Swartz Solid Solid Thermal Boundary Resistance 1988 K Peter Beiersdorfer High Resolution Studies of the X Ray Transitions in Highly Charged Neonlike Ions of the PLT Tokamak 1987 Douglas Bowman High Speed Polycrystalline Silicon Photoconductors for On Chip Pulsing and Gating 1987 Brian L Heffner Switchable Optical Fiber Taps Using the Acousto Optic Bragg Interaction 1987 Dale Stuart A Guidance Algorithm for Cooperative Tether Mediated Orbital Rendezvous 1987 Aryeh M Weiss Real Time Control of the Permeability of Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Membranes to Fluorescent Solutes 1986 Lawrence C West Spectroscopy of GaAs Quantum Wells 1986 Joel Fajans Radiation Measurements of an Intermediate Energy Free Electron Laser 1985 W Daniel Hillis The Connection Machine 1985 Stephen P Boyd Volterra Series Engineering Fundamentals 1985 Steven R Hall A Failure Detection Algorithm for Linear Dynamic Systems 1984 Andrew M Weiner Femtosecond Optical Pulse Generation and Dephasing Measurements in Condensed Matter 1984 David Tuckerman Heat Transfer Microstructures for Integrated Circuits 1984 Michel A Floyd Single Step Optimal Control of Large Space Structures 1983 Emanuel M Sachs Edge Stabilized Ribbon Growth A New Method for the Manufacture of Photovoltaic Substrates 1982 Mike Farmwald On the Design of High Performance Digital Arithmetic Units 1982 Lawrence C Widdoes Automatic Physical Design of Large Wire Wrap Digital Systems 1981 Sherman Chan Small Signal Control of Multiterminal DC AC Power Systems 1981 Peter L Hagelstein Physics of Short Wavelength Laser Design 1981 Charles E Leiserson Area Efficient VLSI Computation 1981 Thomas McWilliams Verification of Timing Constraints on Large Digital SystemsSee also editComputational Science Graduate Fellowship NDSEG Fellowship NSF Graduate Research FellowshipReferences edit a b Jay Davis PhD Elected President of the Hertz Foundation NonProfitPRO 30 October 2009 Retrieved 21 November 2019 a b Fannie and John Hertz Foundation PDF Hertz Foundation Retrieved 3 December 2018 The Hertz Corporation Partners with the Hertz Foundation to sponsor 2019 fellow Bloomberg 16 April 2019 Retrieved 21 November 2019 a b Our Fellows hertzfoundation org Kathleen Fisher Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Retrieved 30 July 2022 Leonidas Guibas The Hertz Foundation Retrieved 18 September 2022 Nate Lewis PhD 1977 Hertz Fellow The Hertz Foundation Retrieved February 17 2023 David Kriegman The Hertz Foundation Retrieved 19 September 2022 Emma Pierson s webpage https www cs cornell edu emmapierson images resume pdf Retrieved 30 October 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Robert Sedgewick Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Retrieved 30 July 2022 Saijel Kishan 1 October 2015 Two Sigma Hires Google s Spector as Chief Technology Officer Bloomberg com Celebrating 50 Years of the Hertz Graduate Fellowship PDF The Hertz Foundation 2013 General Officer Announcements West Point Association of Graduates Retrieved 2021 02 09 Lee T Todd Jr University of Kentucky Retrieved 21 November 2019 Hertz Thesis Prize Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Retrieved 2 March 2024 External links editHertz Foundation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hertz Foundation amp oldid 1215445990 Hertz Fellowship, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
