For more than 190 years, The Franklin Instute has honored the greatest minds in science, engineering, technology and business. Nadrian Seeman, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry at New York University, is the recipient of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. Seeman is being honored for his conceputalization and demonstration that DNA can be used as a programmable construction materials that spontaneously forms sub-microscopic structures of diverse shapes and functions, with potential applications in disease diagnosis and treatment, nanomechanics and computation.
Additional speakers include Chengde Mao, Purdue University; Hao Yan, Arizona State University; and Paul Chaikin, NYU.