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2006 Award Recipients
Our Present-Day Pioneers:
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Ellen Shulman Baker, MD Dr Ellen Shulman Baker has served as an astronaut on three space missions and is the lead astronaut on medical issues and education programs at NASA. She has logged more than 686 hours in space and has traveled more than 11.6 million miles in space with experience on the STS-34 Atlantis, the STS-50 Columbia and the STS-71 Atlantis. |
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Ernst Both A naturalist and mycologist, Ernst Both has had a distinguished career as a scientist, educator and administrator at the Buffalo Museum of Science. An avid collector of boletes, he has built a collection of North American boletes which has benefited mycological researchers worldwide. |
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Stephen Cook, Ph.D. Dr. Stephen Cook, a mathematician and computer scientist from the University of Toronto, is renowned for the work he has done on the mathematical mystery of what computers cannot do. He invented the notion of NP-completeness, a method for showing the computational infeasibility of a large class of important problems. |
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Thomas Dougherty, Ph.D. Dr. Thomas Dougherty of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute is perhaps best known as the inventor of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for drug delivery in the treatment of bladder, esophageal and lung cancers. PDT is a treatment that uses a drug called a photosensitizer and a particular type of light. |
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Robert Gundlach An avid inventor, Robert Gundlach has made photocopying technology, also known as xerography, more practical, flexible and affordable. Over the course of three decades, Gundlach has secured more than 155 patents for his work on the development of the Xerox process. |
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Michael Lockett, D.Sc. Michael Lockett, a chemical engineer with Praxair, is a world-wide authority on distillation equipment - how it works and how to design it. Co-inventor of both high-capacity structured packing and slotted MD trays, his inventions have allowed chemical plants and refineries to substantially increase product output. |
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Frederick Sachs, Ph.D. Dr. Frederick Sachs, a professor in the department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University at Buffalo discovered mechanosensitive ion channels and the only known specific inhibitor of mechanosensitive ion channels. This important discovery may have clinical applications for brain tumors, muscular dystrophy, cardiac arrhythmias and incontinence. |
| Our Posthumous Pioneers: | |
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Glenn H. Curtiss (posthumously 1878-1930) Glenn H. Curtiss had a tremendous impact on aviation history in the first half of the twentieth century and beyond. Curtiss, founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane plant, developed one of the world’s most successful and famous aircraft – the JN-4 Jenny. |
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Robert Guthrie, M.D. |