March 7, 2017 – The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering America’s most brilliant scientific minds, today announced Tony Pan and Max Mankin as the 2016 Strauss Award winners. Pan and Mankin were nominated by Hertz Fellows Dr. Dan Goodman and Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, and were ultimately selected for the tremendous work they have done to revolutionize electric power generation and their effort to find a solution to an issue that impacts everyone around the globe: energy consumption.