The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics and engineering. Fellowships are free of most traditional restrictions. Hertz Fellows become innovators and leaders serving in ways that benefit us all.
Accomplishments
The Foundation has invested over $200M in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,200 Fellows. Their exceptional achievements are direct evidence of the high payoff that occurs when the nation's most innovative graduate students are given the freedom and financial support to develop their own unique genius.
Below are the results from a recent alumni-Fellow survey:
Accomplishments
The Foundation has invested over $200M in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,200 Fellows. Their exceptional achievements are direct evidence of the high payoff that occurs when the nation's most innovative graduate students are given the freedom and financial support to develop their own unique genius.
Below are the results from a recent alumni-Fellow survey:
- Hertz Fellows have founded over 200 companies
- Over 3,000 patents are held by Hertz Fellows
- Hertz Fellows have received over 200 major awards, including 2 Nobel Prizes in physics
- 400 Hertz Fellows are tenured or tenure-track university faculty
- More than 100 Hertz Fellows are scientists or senior managers at Los Alamos, Sandia, and Livermore National Laboratories
- Over 100 Hertz Fellows are military officers—with four serving as General Officers