Foresight Institute has announced the finalists for the 2004 Foresight Feynman Prize. The $10,000 prize, awarded in two categories, theory and experimental, recognizes researchers whose recent work has most advanced the field toward the achievement of Feynman’s vision for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing.

The 2004 finalists for the Experimental prize are: Angela Belcher from MIT Department of Materials; Homme Hellinga, Duke University Medical Center; William Shih, Dana Farber Research Laboratory, and the team of David Baker and Gautum Dantas from the University of Washington and Brian Kuhlman, University of North Carolina.

The 2004 finalists for the Theory prize: Homme Hellinga, Duke University Medical Center; Robert Freitas, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing; Christan Joachim, CNRS Nanoscience Group; and the team of David Baker, University of Washington and Brian Kuhlman, University of North Carolina.

The winners of this year’s prizes will be honored at the Feynman Prize Banquet at the 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy, October 22-24, 2004 at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel, Washington DC area.