约瑟夫·德西蒙,化学工程的威廉·凯南,小特聘教授在北卡罗来纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校化学校长的杰出教授,先后被评为第22届亨氏奖的接收者科技,经济和就业范畴。
该奖项由亨氏家族基金会颁发,表彰在艺术和人文领域取得非凡成就的个人;环境;人类的状况;公共政策;科技、经济和就业。
今年的其他获奖者包括娜塔莎·特雷修伊,安吉拉·布兰查德,格雷戈里·阿斯纳和Mona汉娜 - Attisha博士。
德西蒙被选中是因为他在发展和绿色化学,纳米颗粒制造,精密医学和3-d印刷商业化的先进技术成果。该奖项也承认他在收敛研究的领导下,一个新的模式,集成了生命,物理和工程科学,实现创新,在卫生,环境,能源和经济等方面产生积极影响人类的生活。
“博士DeSimone’s achievements as a polymer scientist and entrepreneur leading to singular breakthroughs in areas such as 3-D printing, nanomedicine and green chemistry are many, and the positive effects on how we live, create, work and treat our planet are only just beginning to be seen,” said Teresa Heinz, chairman of the Heinz Family Foundation. “We honor him with the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment not only for these accomplishments, but also for his ability to work across the traditional boundaries of scientific discipline, and for taking knowledge gained out of the laboratory and into the places where it can have a positive impact.”
在北卡罗来纳州立和UNC-Chapel Hill的他近三十年的职业生涯中,德西蒙的创新已经从创建环境安全流程,使日常材料,如洗涤剂,对纳米级工程医疗治愈不等。
他拥有超过350种出版物和拥有近200项专利,这也导致他发现,根据他的工作多的公司。
德西蒙最近的工作一直在先进制造业,在那里他的技术领域 - 被称为连续液体界面制作,或CLIP - 用于重新构想3-d印刷与他的公司的炭。他目前正在休假,带领这家公司,这是显著快使用CLIP技术制造的对象不是国家的最先进的目前的3 d打印机。
“With CLIP and the parallel breakthrough we’ve made in the development of programmable liquid resins, we are changing the whole trajectory of how polymeric products are designed, engineered, made and delivered, from computer components and medical devices to running shoes and cars,” DeSimone said. “3-D printing has had everyone’s attention, and inspired a lot of people to innovate, but until now, it has been a frustratingly slow technology, without the quality or the materials to scale production. With our technology, the entire dynamic of traditional manufacturing is changing. Instead of making many parts that then need to be assembled in order to create a final object, we are able to directly make the final product.”
美国国家科学院的所有三个部门的成员,德西蒙也有了技术的美国国家科学奖章和创新,从西北大学国际纳米技术研究所的Kabiller奖纳米科学和纳米医学和的Lemelson-MIT奖的获得者。
德西蒙说:“能够获得亨氏奖,我感到非常荣幸。“通过在不同学科的结合点上进行研究,我的学生、同事和我开发了新技术,随着时间的推移,这些技术影响了包括制造业和医药在内的各个领域。这个奖项不仅是对我们的发现的证明,也是对我们研究方法的证明——将不同背景和专业知识的人聚集在一起,解决困难的科学挑战,最终在世界上产生积极的影响。”
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