Inventor, Scientists Win Heinz Awards
Date: Feb 11, 2003
Author: ALLISON SCHLESINGER
Source: Associated Press ( click here to go to the source)
PITTSBURGH (AP) _ An engineer who blended interests in aviation and alternative energy to create a human-powered aircraft is one of six recipients of the ninth annual Heinz Award.
The $250,000 award, bestowed by the Heinz Family Foundation, honors the memory of Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., heir to the Heinz food fortune. Heinz died in a helicopter crash in 1991.
The senator's widow and the foundation chairwoman, Teresa Heinz, established the Heinz Awards in 1993. Heinz is now married to presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
The awards will be handed out at a private ceremony in Washington.
The recipients:
_Paul B. MacCready, designer of the Gossamer Albatross, the first human-powered plane to fly across the English Channel.
The 70-pound balsa wood, plastic and cardboard aircraft used the power of a man pedaling inside to drift 23 miles across the channel in 1979.
Since then, MacCready and his company, AeroVironment Inc., of Monrovia, Calif., have specialized in transportation fueled by alternative energy, creating a solar-powered vehicle, a battery-powered car and a solar-powered airplane.
_Geraldine Jensen, founder and president of the Toledo, Ohio-based Association for Children for Enforcement of Support.
Jensen was honored for her advocacy of child-support reform legislation and the creation of an organization that has 400 chapters in 48 states. Since 1984, the group has helped more than 700,000 parents collect child support totaling more than $3 billion.
_Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights activist, composer and founder of the vocal ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock. She is also a curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
_Mario J. Molina, a chemist and professor of environmental sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the effects of chlorofluorocarbons on the earth's stratosphere and used the prize money to establish an endowed fellowship at MIT.
_John D. Spengler, director of the environmental science and engineering program at Harvard University, for his studies into air quality and his efforts to raise public awareness of air pollution's effect on people's health.
_Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School physician and medical anthropologist. An expert in tuberculosis and HIV, Farmer works to raise health care standards in poor countries and founded Partners in Health, a non-governmental health care organization.
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On the Net:
http://www.heinzawards.net
Author: ALLISON SCHLESINGER
Source: Associated Press ( click here to go to the source)
Featured firm in this article: AeroVironment Inc of Arlington, VA
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The $250,000 award, bestowed by the Heinz Family Foundation, honors the memory of Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., heir to the Heinz food fortune. Heinz died in a helicopter crash in 1991.
The senator's widow and the foundation chairwoman, Teresa Heinz, established the Heinz Awards in 1993. Heinz is now married to presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
The awards will be handed out at a private ceremony in Washington.
The recipients:
_Paul B. MacCready, designer of the Gossamer Albatross, the first human-powered plane to fly across the English Channel.
The 70-pound balsa wood, plastic and cardboard aircraft used the power of a man pedaling inside to drift 23 miles across the channel in 1979.
Since then, MacCready and his company, AeroVironment Inc., of Monrovia, Calif., have specialized in transportation fueled by alternative energy, creating a solar-powered vehicle, a battery-powered car and a solar-powered airplane.
_Geraldine Jensen, founder and president of the Toledo, Ohio-based Association for Children for Enforcement of Support.
Jensen was honored for her advocacy of child-support reform legislation and the creation of an organization that has 400 chapters in 48 states. Since 1984, the group has helped more than 700,000 parents collect child support totaling more than $3 billion.
_Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights activist, composer and founder of the vocal ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock. She is also a curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
_Mario J. Molina, a chemist and professor of environmental sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the effects of chlorofluorocarbons on the earth's stratosphere and used the prize money to establish an endowed fellowship at MIT.
_John D. Spengler, director of the environmental science and engineering program at Harvard University, for his studies into air quality and his efforts to raise public awareness of air pollution's effect on people's health.
_Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School physician and medical anthropologist. An expert in tuberculosis and HIV, Farmer works to raise health care standards in poor countries and founded Partners in Health, a non-governmental health care organization.
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On the Net:
http://www.heinzawards.net
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