Felice Frankel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University where she heads the Envisioning Science program at Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC). She holds a concurrent position as research scientist at MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel’s images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences. She was named the 2007 winner of the prestigious international Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography and is founder of the Image and Meaning and workshops whose purpose is to develop new approaches to promote the public understanding of science through visual expression. Frankel is leading a newly funded NSF undergraduate program, “Picturing to Learn” and is spearheading new efforts to create a virtual graphical community in science and engineering. Her work inspired “Inside the Image: How scientists see the world” on the Apple Science web site.

George M. Whitesides is currently the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard, one of only 21 University Professorships at the institution. He is the author of more than 950 scientific articles and is listed as an inventor on more than 50 patents. Among other awards, Whitesides is the recipient of the American Chemical Society's Award in Pure Chemistry (1975), the Arthur C. Cope Award (1995), National Medal of Science (1998), the Kyoto Prize in Materials Science and Engineering (2003), the Dan David Prize (2005), the Welch Award in Chemistry (2005), and the Priestley Medal (2007) [6] [7], the highest honor conferred by the ACS.