To Prof. Ray Baughman University of Texas at Dallas, USA for his pioneering work and fundamental scientific contributions in the field of Artificial Muscles based on Conjugated Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes.

To Prof. Eiichi Fukada, Kobayasi Institute of Physical Research, Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan for a long-standing career and his pioneering work in the field of the piezoelectricity of biopolymers.

To Prof. Gerhard M. Sessler, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany for a long-standing career and his pioneering work in the field of electrets’ physics and applications to electromechanical devices.