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By honoring these young individuals and their achievements we are helping to promote the breakthroughs in science and technology that will define how our world will look in 20, 50, 100 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},{"id":3919,"link":"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/testimonial\/michal-lipson\/","name":"michal-lipson","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Michal-Lipson-CU.jpg","alt":"A woman smiles for the camera."},"title":"Michal Lipson","author":{"name":"The New York Academy of Sciences","link":"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/author\/nyas_dev_admin\/"},"date":"Jan 17, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-01-17 13:53:39","modifiedDate":"2025-02-26 16:28:29","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-02-26 16:28:29","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"","space":""},"taxonomies":{"feature":"<a href='https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/feature\/partner-funder\/' rel='feature'>Partner\/Funder<\/a>","program-category":"<a href='https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/program-category\/awards\/' rel='program-category'>Awards<\/a><a href='https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/program-category\/blavatnik\/' rel='program-category'>Blavatnik<\/a>","scientific-theme":"<a href='https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/scientific-theme\/stem-pathways\/' rel='scientific-theme'>STEM Pathways<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":21},"status":"publish","content":"<!-- wp:paragraph {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Applied Physics<br><strong>Columbia University<\/strong><br>Blavatnik National Awards Scientific Advisory Council<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>There are a few awards for young scientists, but almost all of them are based on proposals that you submit, and not on the actual work that you do as a young scientist. 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