
Raymond Kurzweil: That Magical Transcendent Feeling
More than 40 years after being named a Westinghouse finalist, a futurist is still inventing

Raymond Kurzweil: That Magical Transcendent Feeling
More than 40 years after being named a Westinghouse finalist, a futurist is still inventing

Job Rijssenbeek: Balancing Science and Life
A 1994 Westinghouse finalist was headed for a career in academia, then had second thoughts after realizing he wanted to spend more time with family

Linda Bockenstedt: A scientific family tradition
A 1974 Westinghouse finalist first takes on stuttering, then Lyme disease—and now the systemic biases of academic medicine

Ronald Breslow: Interesting Compounds with Interesting Properties
From big stinks to cancer drugs, a National Medal of Science winner tries to improve on nature

From Biology to Physics and Back Again: Leon Cooper
A 1947 Westinghouse finalist chose physics as a career, shared a Nobel for work on superconductivity, then turned to neuroscience

Recognizing Patterns: Ciamac Moallemi
A 1991 Westinghouse finalist realizes after a stint in finance that he would rather follow in his parents' academic footsteps

Blazing a trail for women in math: Moon Duchin
A 1993 Westinghouse finalist cited by Rush Limbaugh still wants to change how people think about women in science

Any knowledge that might be useful: Leroy Hood
A 1956 Intel finalist learned geology in Montana, and now runs a Seattle-based institute focused on personalized medicine

Baffling Questions: Atom Sarkar
A sister's malaria leads a teenager on a search for treatments for the deadly disease

Making Teaching into an Intellectual Journey: Laura Ascenzi-Moreno
How a 1990 Westinghouse finalist turned her project into a career spurring teachers on

Finding Order: Jane Richardson
A Westinghouse finalist learns how to calculate a satellite's orbit, then launches a career drawing illuminating protein structures

Scenes from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair [Slide Show]
We were on hand in Atlanta last week as more than 1,500 students competed for $4 million in prizes

Being Stung by Bees: "You get used to it"--Carol Fassbinder-Orth
An Intel finalist went from bee parasites to bird diseases, and now juggles a new academic position with motherhood

Hidden Meanings: Keith Winstein
A 1999 Intel finalist who worked on a better way to send secret codes is now decoding technology for the general public at The Wall Street Journal

"What Amuses Me:" Mary-Dell Chilton
A 1956 Westinghouse finalist moves from optics and telescopes to revolutionizing agriculture

Where Are They Now?
The stories of Westinghouse--now Intel--Science Talent Search finalists. From chemistry to code-breaking, genetics to geology, some of these scientifically precocious young men and women have gone on to win Nobel Prizes--and all of them live fascinating lives

The Watcher: Roald Hoffmann
A 1955 Westinghouse finalist wins a Nobel Prize in chemistry 26 years later, then turns his attention to poetry