RESEARCH LEADER OF THE YEAR: 1. Woo Suk Hwang, Seoul National University

BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR: 2. Google, Inc.

POLICY LEADER OF THE YEAR: 3. Fred Kavli, Kavli Foundation

Other Research, Business and Policy Leaders

Getting Serious about Flu 4. Robert G. Webster, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (policy) 5. Klaus Sthr, WHO (policy) 6. Robert B. Belshe, Saint Louis University, and Iomai Corporation (research) 7. NexBio, Inc. (business)

More Power to Solar 8. Edward H. Sargent, University of Toronto (research) 9. Michael Grtzel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Tsutomu Miyasaka and Takurou N. Murakami, Toin University of Yokohama (research) 10. Hydrogen Solar (business)

Stem Cell Imperative

  1. Robert Klein, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (policy)
  2. Stem Cell Sciences (business)
  3. R. Michael Roberts, University of Missouri at Columbia (research)

Repairing Broken Hearts

  1. Mark T. Keating, Harvard Medical School (research)

Protections for the Earth’s Climate

  1. Inez Y. Fung, University of California, Berkeley (research)
  2. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (policy)
  3. Steve Howard, Climate Group (policy)

A Future in Plastics

  1. Paul W. M. Blom and Ronald C. G. Naber, University of Groningen, and Philips Research Eindhoven (research)
  2. John A. Rogers, University of Illinois, and Michael E. Gershenson, Rutgers University (research)
  3. Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University (research)

New Offensives against HIV

  1. Daniel C. Douek, National Institutes of Health (research)
  2. Joachim Hauber, Heinrich Pette Institute (research)
  3. Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa (policy)

Creative Paths to Open Access

  1. Patrick O. Brown and Michael B. Eisen, Public Library of Science (policy)
  2. IBM (business)
  3. MyPublicInfo, Inc. (business)
  4. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont (policy)

A Force for Change

  1. Green Watershed and Friends of Nature, China (policy)

Waiting for Wi-Far

  1. Carl Stevenson, IEEE (policy)
  2. Advanced Automotive Antennas (A3) (business)

Designing Artificial Life

  1. James J. Collins, Boston University (research)
  2. George M. Church, Harvard Medical School (research)
  3. Albert Libchaber, Rockefeller University (research)

New Aircraft, Big and Small

  1. Airbus (business)

  2. Embraer SA/Indstria Aeronutica Neiva (business) Watching the Brain at Work

  3. R. Clay Reid, Harvard Medical School (research)

  4. Yukiyasu Kamitani, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, and Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University (research)

  5. Bradley Hyman, Massachusetts General Hospital (research)

  6. Nathan N. Urban, Carnegie Mellon University (research)

Practical Nanotubes

  1. James E. Jaskie, Motorola Physical Sciences Research Lab (business)
  2. DuPont Central Research and Development (business)
  3. Bradley J. Nelson, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (research)
  4. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (business)
  5. U.K. Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (research)

True Green

  1. Paul T. Anastas, Green Chemistry Institute (policy)
  2. U.S. Green Buildings Council, Fox & Fowle, William McDonough & Partners, and Foster and Partners (business)

Hope for Fixing Gene Defects

  1. Yehoash Raphael, University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, and Zheng-Yi Chen, Massachusetts General Hospital (research)
  2. Paras N. Prasad, University of Buffalo (research)

Photons, Electrons and Silicon

  1. Ozdal Boyraz and Bahram Jalali, University of California, Los Angeles (research)
  2. Haisheng Rong, Intel (business)

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Micha Asscher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Charles Elachi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Horn, IBM International Development Enterprises Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University John P. Moore, Cornell University Joe Poon, University of Virginia Seth J. Putterman, University of California, Los Angeles Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab Anthony J. Tether, DARPA Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Mark Alpert, Steven Ashley, Charles Q. Choi, Graham P. Collins, Aimee Cunningham, Mariette DiChristina, W. Wayt Gibbs, JR Minkel, George Musser, Michelle Press, John Rennie, Ricki L. Rusting, Christine Soares, Gary Stix, Michael Szpir, Lamont Wood, Philip M. Yam

BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR: 2. Google, Inc.

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