Physics grad students Herzog-Arbeitman ’19 and Longenecker win $250,000 Hertz fellowships
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The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that Princeton graduates pupils Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman and Daniel Longenecker are two of the 13 recipients of the prestigious 2022 Hertz Fellowships in utilized science, mathematics and engineering.
The fellows, chosen from a pool of more than 650 candidates from throughout the country, will receive a stipend and comprehensive tuition assist valued at much more than $250,000 for up to 5 several years of graduate research.
“To keep on being a world leader in science and technological innovation, our nation calls for enterprising minds capable of inventing inventive solutions to genuine challenges,” said Robbee Baker Kosak, president of the Hertz Foundation. “We’re thrilled to be equipped to help these promising innovators and fuel their analysis at these types of a pivotal time in their professions.”
Released in 1963, the Hertz Fellowship has supported extra than 1,200 scientists and engineers who collectively hold additional than 3,000 patents, have established more than 375 companies, and have gained hundreds of big national and global awards, together with two Nobel Prizes, 8 Breakthrough Prizes, the National Medal of Engineering, the Fields Medal and the Turing Award.
Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman
Herzog-Arbeitman, a member of the Course of 2019 who is now a first-calendar year graduate college student at Princeton University, is a condensed matter physicist performing toward the discovery of new states of matter and the progress of quantum products to fix long-standing issues. He has posted 13 papers in journals which include two in Character Physics and four in Physical Overview Letters — one centered on study from his first summer season at Princeton.
“Having inspiration from people like Bohr and Schrodinger has never ever been a lot more crucial, as we glimpse for the future leap of faith that will get us from the quantum mechanics of the previous hundred years to that of the up coming hundred several years,” he claimed. “The initiatives I’m operating on are the theoretical cusp of what we consider to be a revolution in engineering products making use of topology and quantum mechanics.”
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Herzog-Arbeitman analyzed physics, math and poetry. In 2019, he gained a Marshall Scholarship to analyze at Oxford and Cambridge, earning master’s degrees from the two institutions right before returning to Princeton for graduate university.
At Princeton, he has been energetic in mentorship courses and the physics department’s variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives. He is dedicated to diversifying academia, encouraging undergraduates to pursue physics and demystifying the route to a occupation in investigate. In his bio for the Hertz Foundation, he talked about that he has “a twin, two moms and a pretty furry pet.”
Daniel Longenecker
Longenecker, also a very first-calendar year graduate scholar in physics, studies scattering amplitudes in quantum subject concept and string theory. He hopes to contribute to the reformulation of quantum industry concept by identifying new concepts and mathematical structures.
“I’m so thrilled to be component of the Hertz community and to be equipped to meet up with other Hertz Fellows who are scholars with deep understanding in their field and who also want to improve the globe.”
Longenecker obtained his BA in physics and physics schooling in 2021 from Cornell College. Deeply interested in all factors of training, he has held many instructing roles each at Cornell and at Princeton, and he hopes to start off a business to provide educational access for underprivileged kids all over the earth.
Born in Maryland, he moved to Kuwait with his family members when he was 5 yrs old. University closures prompted by the Iraq war in 2003 led to him being homeschooled till faculty. Outdoors of tutorial pursuits, Longenecker enjoys traveling the world with his wife, Addison. He has visited 25 countries so much.
