Beckman Young Investigators Award

Beckman Young Investigators Award
Awarded forInnovative young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences
Date1991 (1991)
Presented byArnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Websitehttp://www.beckman-foundation.org/

The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991,[1]: 357  and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.[2] The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers.[3][4] Awardees receive grant of roughly $600,000 over four years, "contingent on demonstrated progress after the second year". The intent is to foster "innovative departures" and the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in the chemical and life sciences.[1]

It has been awarded to the following scientists:[4]

  1. ^ a b Arnold Thackray & Minor Myers, Jr. (2000). Arnold O. Beckman : one hundred years of excellence. foreword by James D. Watson. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-941901-23-9.
  2. ^ Novel Discoveries: Beckman Young Investigators, 1991-2009. Irvine, CA: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. 2011.
  3. ^ Williams, Tate (September 2, 2015). "Another Foundation Backing Young Scientists Who Are Shaking Up Their Fields". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Beckman Young Investigators Award Recipients". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 9 March 2017.