Budding Nanotechnologist Wins Intel Student Competition
from the Better,-Faster,-Cheaper dept.
PatrickUnderwood brings our attention to this remarkable story on ABCnews/Go.com:
Mariangela Lisanti, a high school student from Westport, CT, has been named as this yearís winner of the Intel Science Talent Search. She was awarded a $100,000 college scholarship.
Lisanti, who as already compiled an impressive resume, entered a physics project titled "Conductance Quantization in Gold Nanocontacts." She is the third young woman in a row to win the top prize in the Intel competition. Lisantiís work was conducted at Yale University under the guidance of Prof. Mark Reed, Chair of the Electrical Engineering department and a leading researcher in the field of molecular electronics. To better understand electron transport in tiny nanostructures, Lisanti developed a new measurement apparatus that enables data acquisition at an unprecedented rate and is applicable to a wide range of studies. Additional details are available on the Yale web site.
Amazingly, this is the second award of $100,000 Ms. Lisanti has received: She was also winner in the Siemens Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition in December 2000.
March 17th, 2001 at 8:16 AM
And just what has this kid offered?
And just what has this kid offered to the field of Nanotechnology?? Absolutely nothing. All it says in the article is that she thinks Nanotechnology is the future. Give me a break – anyone with a 'working' brain knows that. Now if she actually created the 'Nanowire' that would be worthy of a $100,000 scholarship – but instead, she gives away a stupid theorom that not only is useless but has nothing to do with Nanotech at all. How is this worthy news?
I probably shouldn't be so harsh on the kid – afterall, I have to ask myself what exactly I've contributed to Nanotech so far – when it comes down to it, my resume is just as bad as hers.
March 17th, 2001 at 8:28 AM
Re:And just what has this kid offered?
If what she says is true, something that "measures [current] flow through nanowires better than any technique that existed before," allows collection of data "three to one-thousand times faster than other techniques" and is "$35 worth of equipment in comparison to $100,000" seems like a pretty decent contribution to me.
March 17th, 2001 at 10:10 AM
Re:And just what has this kid offered?
It's a theorom to something that doesn't exist yet, and is not something of substance – by the time 'Nanowires' do come into existence, her theorom will be obsolete (if it isn't already)
If it were me presenting something like this, I would be told to 'live in the moment'. It seems like nice advice that I think everyone should listen to.
March 17th, 2001 at 1:07 PM
Re:And just what has this kid offered?
But isn't it true that this "theorem" is also applicable to electron flow in other sorts of nanostructures, not necessarily just nanowires? I mean, nanostructures are not theoretical, and neither are current-carrying nanostructures (e.g. nanotransistor research done by Aono, posted recently). Therefore, it seems plausible that this kind of research can be used in the state of the art at present.
March 17th, 2001 at 9:09 PM
Has her stuff actually been published on the Web?
If so, where? Thanks in advance.
March 17th, 2001 at 9:12 PM
Has her stuff been published on the Web?
Apologies if this is a duplicate post. Kadamose, where are you getting your info? URL, please? All my searches are turning up is journalistic puffery.