Paul W. K. Rothemund

"Paul Rothemund" redirects here. For the early 20th century chemist, see Paul Rothemund (chemist, born 1904).
Paul Rothemund
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCaltech
University of Southern California
Known forDNA origami
AwardsFeynman Prize in Nanotechnology;
MacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
InstitutionsCaltech

Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund is a research professor at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech.[1] He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. He shared both categories of the 2006 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology with Erik Winfree for their work in creating DNA nanotubes, algorithmic molecular self-assembly of DNA tile structures, and their theoretical work on DNA computing.[2] Rothemund is also a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.[3]

  1. ^ "Paul W.K. Rothemund official website". Retrieved 2007-12-28.
  2. ^ "2006 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize". Foresight Institute. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Paul Rothemund". MacArthur Foundation. 18 January 2007. Retrieved 20 July 2012.