Emily Ashworth - American Society for Engineering Education
Emily Ashworth - American Society for Engineering Education
Emily Ashworth - American Society for Engineering Education
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NSF‐funded Discoveries<br />
• NSF seeks high‐risk, potentially trans<strong>for</strong>mative projects that<br />
will generate path‐breaking discoveries and new<br />
technologies<br />
• In the past decades, NSF‐funded researchers have won more<br />
than 180 Nobel Prizes.<br />
• These pioneers have included scientists or teams that<br />
� discovered many of the fundamental particles of matter<br />
� analyzed cosmic microwaves left over from the earliest<br />
epoch of the universe<br />
� developed carbon‐14 dating of ancient artifacts<br />
� decoded the genetics of viruses<br />
� created an entirely new state of matter, the Bose‐Einstein<br />
condensate<br />
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