MAYOR GIULIANI PROCLAIMS "ADAM EZRA COHEN DAY" IN NEW YORK CITY
Acknowledges extraordinary achievement of Westinghouse Science Scholarship Award Winner
City Hall - Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today presented 17-year old whiz Adam Ezra Cohen with a proclamation acknowledging his achievement as the first place winner of the Westinghouse Scholarship Awards. Adam, a senior at Hunter College High School, designed and built a scanning tunneling microscope that uses a unique electrochemical paintbrush to do near-field photolithography. This technology can produce microscopic patterns such as those used for computer chips, allowing fifty words to be printed on a surface the width of a human hair.
"I take great pride in congratulating Adam and proclaiming Wednesday, March 12, 1997, as Adam Ezra Cohen Day in New York City," Mayor Giuliani said. "His scientific achievement has the potential to turn around the computer age. New York's scientific community is proud of Adam's achievement because this City is the home to the best in scientific research and technology.
"I extend my congratulations to Ezra's parents and teachers at Hunter College High School. We recognize the vital role of parental guidance and support in the academic achievement of our youth," added the Mayor.
The Manhattan teenager is the son of Audrey and Joel Cohen. Audrey teaches business at Baruch College and Joel is a MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. Adam will use the $40,000 first place scholarship to study at Harvard, MIT or Princeton. He plans to be an inventor and or a research scientist.
Also present during the ceremony was Rose Payyapilli, another New Yorker who placed in the top ten of the Westinghouse Science Awards. The Mayor presented Rose with a Certificate of Achievement. Rose is 17 years old and attends Midwood High School at Brooklyn College. She won ninth place and was awarded $10,000. Rose identified a naturally occurring universal factor that prevents platelets from forming clots which, in certain instances, leads to heart attacks and strokes. Joining Rose were her parents, John, a Transit Authority design engineer and Pushpamma, a dietitian.
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