Zare and Fisher win the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for rendering molecules visible and analyzing their collective behavior

The 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category goes to physicist and chemist Richard N. Zare, of Stanford University, and physicist Michael E. Fisher, of the University of Maryland, for their independent, fundamental contributions to describing the world at molecular level. “One has unraveled secrets of nature’s building blocks and the underlying interactions between them by enabling us to view what happens at the molecular scale. The other has developed theoretical approaches that help analyze what happens when a large assembly of such building blocks is brought together”, in the words of the jury’s citation.

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