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Whitesides To Receive $400,000 Kyoto Prize

Chemistry professor George M. Whitesides of Harvard University has won one of this year's three Kyoto Prizes. The Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan, presents the international awards to people "who have contributed significantly to mankind's betterment." The Kyoto laureates will each receive a diploma, a 20-karat-gold Kyoto Prize Medal, and a gift of about $400,000 at a ceremony in Japan on Nov. 10. Whitesides earned the 2003 prize for pioneering developments in organic molecular self-assembly, a technology with potential applications in electronic devices, ultrasensitive probes, and biomolecular mimicry. "It's a case of learning from nature," Whitesides says. "We look at living things and ask ourselves how they do what they do. We try to extract basic principles from this, then use them to assemble structures without human intervention." This year's other two Kyoto Prize go to emeritus University of Chicago physicist Eugene N.Parkerfor solar wind and cosmic magnetohydrodynamics research and to Tamao Yoshi...