| John A. Rogers, is the Director of Nanotechnology Research at Bell Laboratories. His current interests include new methods for micro- and nanofabrication, plastic electronics, and Œsoft, materials for photonics. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. He received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995, all from MIT. The picosecond laser ultrasonic methods that Rogers developed during his PhD research were commercialized through a successful start-up company that he co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired in whole by Philips in 1998. This company produced all optical characterization tools that are capable of measuring the thicknesses of thin metal films to a precision of one atomic diameter. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997. Rogers has published more than 100 papers and is an inventor on over 60 patents and patent applications, more than 30 of which are either licensed or in active use. He was selected as one of the nation's top 100 young innovators for the 21st century by MIT's Technology Review magazine in 1999 and was awarded a similar honor by the National Academy of Engineering in 2000. His work with electronic paper received the American Chemical Society's Team Innovation Award, an R&D100 award, and R&D Magazine's Editors Choice for the "Best of the Best" new technology for 2001. His work with tunable chromatic dispersion compensators won an R&D100 award for 2002. Rogers was the 2001 Robert B. Woodward Scholar of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. | 
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