Marconi Fellows include an elite list of individuals whose work set the stage for modern telecommunications and the Internet, from Nobel Prize-winning physicists Arthur Schawlow and Sir Charles Kao to Internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Paul Baran, Vint Cerf and Leonard Kleinrock, microprocessor inventor Federico Faggin, World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, science visionary Arthur C. Clarke, and Ethernet inventor Robert M. Metcalfe. More recent winners have included Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, DSL modem inventor John Cioffi, encryption pioneers Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie and Ron Rivest, MIMO inventor A. J. Paulraj, turbo-code inventor Claude Berrou, fiber optic pioneers Robert Tkach, David Payne and Andrew Chraplyvy and wireless luminaries Andrew Viterbi, Irwin Jacobs Martin Cooper and Henry Samueli, among others. Young Scholars are identified as having the potential to someday become Marconi Prize winners, too.
If you know a student who has demonstrated outstanding research capability, entrepreneurial spirit and technical vision, for this year's award. Only candidates born in 1987 or later are eligible for the award in 2015. Complete nomination instructions and the online application are accessible through this link:
http://marconisociety.org/youngscholars/selectioncriteria.html
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2015 . If you have questions, please direct them to: Ms. Hatti Hamlin Executive Director The Marconi Society 925.872.4328