• Source: Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an American non-profit organization that awards prestigious fellowships to Ph.D. students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The fellowship provides students with up to $250,000 of support over five years, giving them flexibility and the ability to pursue their own interests, as well as mentoring from alumni fellows. Fellowship recipients pledge to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency.




Hertz Fellowship






= History

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The Hertz Foundation was established in 1957 with the goal of supporting applied sciences education. The founder, John D. Hertz, was a European emigrant whose family arrived in the United States with few resources, when the Hertz was five years old. Hertz matured into a prominent entrepreneur and business leader (founder of the Yellow Cab Company and owner of the Hertz corporation) as the automotive age burgeoned in Chicago. Initially, the Foundation granted undergraduate scholarships to qualified and financially limited mechanical and electrical engineering students. In 1963, the undergraduate scholarship program was phased out and replaced with postgraduate fellowships leading to the award of the Ph.D. The scope of the studies supported by the fellowships was also enlarged to include applied sciences and other engineering disciplines.




= Competitiveness

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For the 2017–2018 academic year, nearly 800 applicants applied for 10 spots, giving it an acceptance rate of 1.5%. Since 1960, the foundation has made awards to 1,271 fellows, with 309 fellows affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 255 with Stanford University; 104 with the University of California, Berkeley; 95 with the California Institute of Technology; and 76 with Harvard University. These top five universities account for nearly two-thirds of all fellows.




= Notable Fellows

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Lars Bildsten, Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara
Manjul Bhargava, Fields Medalist 2014
Eric Boe, NASA Astronaut
Gregory S. Boebinger, physicist, Florida State University
Stephen P. Boyd, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Ed Boyden, 2016 Breakthrough Prize
James E. Brau
Mung Chiang, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor at Princeton University, 2013 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient
Isaac Chuang, quantum computing pioneer
Kevin M. Esvelt
Doyne Farmer, an originator of econophysics
Mike Farmwald, Founder of Rambus
Alex Filippenko, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley
Kathleen Fisher, Deputy Director at DARPA's Information Innovation Office and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University
Alice P. Gast, President, Imperial College of London
Kenneth M. Golden, Fellow of Explorers Club
Jeff Gore, physicist and ecologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leonidas J. Guibas, researcher in computational geometry and Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Nathan Lewis, professor, California Institute of Technology
Kevin Karplus, professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Kriegman, researcher in computer vision and Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego
Peter Hagelstein, Inventor, X-ray laser
Danny Hillis, Inventor, entrepreneur, and author
Andrew Houck, Quantum Computist
Tianhui Michael Li, first Data Scientist in residence at Andreessen Horowitz, founder of The Data Incubator
Po-Shen Loh, Coach of USA International Mathematical Olympiad Team and Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Derek Lidow, Founder of iSuppli Corp.
Robert Lourie, Head of Futures research at Renaissance Technologies
John C. Mather, Nobel Laureate 2006
Mike Montemerlo, Winning Team Leader, DARPA Grand Challenge 2005
Nathan Myhrvold, Founder, Intellectual Ventures, former CTO, Microsoft
Dianne P. O'Leary, applied mathematician
Sabrina Pasterski, Young Physicist
General Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Commander, Air Force Material Command
Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University
Joseph Polchinski, Fundamental Physics Prize 2017
William H. Press, Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Robert Sedgewick, William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University
Katelin Schutz
Kenneth L Shepard
Ray Sidney, Google entrepreneur
Alfred Spector, CTO of Two Sigma and former VP of Research at Google
Rich C. Staats, Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Innovation Command
Robert Tarjan, Turing Award 1986
Astro Teller, Director, Google X
Michael Telson, Former CFO at the Department of Energy
Lee T. Todd, Jr., Entrepreneur, past president of the University of Kentucky
Philip Welkhoff, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Christian Wentz, electrical engineer & entrepreneur
Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate 2001
Ned Wingreen
In 2018, some 30 Hertz Fellows were recognized by MIT Technology Review, Forbes, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Academy of Sciences and many others for outstanding work in their respective fields.




Thesis Prize


The Hertz Foundation requires that each Fellow furnish the Foundation a copy of his or her doctoral dissertation upon receiving the Ph.D. The Foundation's Thesis Prize Committee examines the Ph.D. dissertations for their overall excellence and pertinence to high-impact applications of the physical sciences. Each Thesis Prize winner receives an honorarium of $5,000.




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