June 30, 2004 – There might be plenty of room at the bottom, but there isn’t plenty of time to nominate a colleague for the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.

Submission deadline is Wednesday for the nanotech think tank’s annual prizes for theory and experimental work in the field. The winners, who each receive $5,000, will be announced Oct. 22 during the First Symposium on Molecular Machine Systems in Washington, D.C.

This is the 12th year that Foresight will award the Feynman prize, named for physicist Richard Feynman. His 1959 speech, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” first outlined the possibilities of nanotechnology.