"None of this work would have been possible without the support of the Hertz Foundation."
Christopher Loose
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hertz Fellow 2007
"Hertz Fellowship was crucial in allowing me to have the support to explore research topics that excited me most, which turned the luxury of intellectual freedom to a reality of daily life since my Ph.D. years."
Mung Chiang
Stanford University
Hertz Fellow 2004
"The Hertz Foundation was Transformational! It literally changed my life... I canceled plans to spend a year in Germany and decided to go to graduate school at Berkeley, instead."
Christopher McKee
University of California, Berkeley
Hertz Fellow 1969
"The Hertz Fellowship allowed me the flexibility to choose an unconventional thesis topic (microchannel cooling) rather than being force-fit into an existing funded research program. The startup company that I co-founded was a direct off-shoot of interests that I developed during my Ph.D. research."
David B. Tuckerman
Stanford University
Hertz Fellow 1983
"I had already begun my research before receiving the Hertz Fellowship, however the project was unfunded. Hertz allowed me to pursue the research I wanted to pursue."
Keith Dionne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hertz Fellow 1990
"Having a Hertz Fellowship helped me to learn to think independently and attack problems in unconventional ways."
Edward Ratner
Stanford University
Hertz Fellow 1995
"I literally would not have been able to finish graduate school without it."
J. Doyne Farmer
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hertz Fellow 1981
"My clout in college probably connected me to the people that co-founded Infoseek. Folks that knew me, knew what I did... but folks that didn't know me, understood what my Fellowship award meant."
James Roskind
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hertz Fellow 1983
"It allowed me to complete my degrees quickly without being a slave to my professor."
John Wakerly
Stanford University
Hertz Fellow 1973
"The Hertz Fellowship was terrific. It gave me easy entry into the research group that I really wanted to be in and allowed me freedom to change my project as scientific thrusts changed. It was great!"
Nathan Lewis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hertz Fellow 1981
"The Hertz Fellowship was transformational. The technical depth it helped me pursue was crucial to earning credibility with the founders and inventors of GPS."
W. Neil McCasland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hertz Fellow 1988
