Illuminations A NEWSLETTER FOR SPECIAL FRIENDS AND DONORS OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SPRING | SUMMER 2018 A Letter FROM TRUSTEE TOM LYNCH As Chairman of TE Connectivity, I have had the opportunity to visit with many of our outstanding engineers and see firsthand just how vital STEM skills are in today’s workforce. hese women and men—and countless Today, when science, innovation, and others like them around the world— technology literacy are more important than ever, have brought to life that which seemed I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a impossible just a generation ago. We live in place like The Franklin Institute. My responsibility an increasingly connected world. Remote as a trustee is to ensure that the organization sensors that enable doctors and patients to thrives and builds upon its 194-year-old legacy—a monitor critical medical conditions. Fiber legacy that would be impossible without your optic communication cables beneath the generous support. Thank you and I hope to see sea floor that connect people, communities, you at the Institute soon. and continents instantaneously. These once- impossible feats began with a spark, a moment Sincerely, in the life of a child when a passion for science and technology was ignited. Few places do more to create such moments than The Franklin Institute. In 2017, The Franklin Institute reached Tom Lynch 1.1 million people in person through its VICE CHAIR, programming and millions more digitally Board of Trustees through portals like Facebook and the C H A I R , Institute’s mobile app. In April, we honored nine Development and Government of the brightest minds in science, technology, Relations Committee engineering, and business at our 194th Awards Ceremony. And in June, 28 high school seniors graduated from our youth education programs eager and ready to pursue STEM fields in college and in their careers. CONTENTS The 2018 Franklin Game Masters Institute Awards Week Family Party Ceremony and Dinner Page 10 Pages 2-4 What is a Science Story? Family & Flight Page 11 Fred Hagan Page 5 Celebrating Women in Science—Astronaut Planes, Trains, and Failed Soyeon Yi Prototypes Page 12 Page 6 Will the First Blood Test The Philadelphia for Concussions Be A Science Festival Game Changer? Pages 7-8 Page 13 Game Masters The Franklin Fund Page 9 Page 14 Vikings: Know Your Brain, Beyond the Legend Know Your Business Page 9 Page 14 Welcome, Trustee Escape Rooms Quentin Roach Page 14 Page 9 Save the Date Page 15 THE 2018 FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Awards Week Ceremony & Dinner On Thursday, April 19, The Franklin Institute honored nine esteemed laureates for their groundbreaking achievements in science, technology, engineering, and business. 2 1 The 194th Awards Ceremony drew a sold-out crowd of nearly 800 guests Philippe Horvath, Ph.D. 2 who celebrated these luminaries in Franklin Hall Bower Award and Prize with Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts hosting for Achievement in Science and President and CEO Larry Dubinski and Board Chair Don Morel presenting medals and John B. Goodenough, Ph.D. honoraria. This event marked the culmination Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry of Awards Week, during which the laureates presented lectures at area universities and Susan Trumbore, Ph.D. interacted with the Institute’s youth education Benjamin Franklin Medal in programs’ students to inspire the next generation Earth and Environmental Science of STEM leaders. The week also featured a special Speaker Series event, “Women Champions of Adrian Bejan, Ph.D. Science”—celebrating the Institute’s first cohort Benjamin Franklin Medal in with four female laureates. Mechanical Engineering A group of hardworking volunteers and the generosity of the Institute’s supporters make Anne M. Mulcahy Awards Week possible. Awards Co-Chairs Bower Award for Business Leadership Michael C. Forman and Leanne M. McMenamin, along with Vice-Chair Linda J. Hauptfuhrer, Vinton Gray Cerf, Ph.D. promoted the event, which raised more than Benjamin Franklin Medal in $1 million to further the Institute’s mission to Computer and Cognitive Science inspire a passion for learning about science and technology. We are grateful for Bank of Robert E. Kahn, Ph.D. America’s 16th consecutive year as presenting Benjamin Franklin Medal in sponsor and look forward to their sponsorship Computer and Cognitive Science through 2024 when the Institute reaches its 200th anniversary. Manijeh Razeghi, Sc.D. Much as Benjamin Franklin did in his day, Benjamin Franklin Medal in The Franklin Institute’s 2018 Award Laureates Electrical Engineering represent the cutting-edge of research, thought, and action—we are honored to Helen Rhoda Quinn, Ph.D. present them with their awards. For more Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics photos and information about the event, visit www.fi.edu/Awards2018Photos. 3 PRESENTING SPONSOR Bank of America AWARDS WEEK & ASSOCIATE SPONSOR FS Investments ASSOCIATE SPONSORS The Danaher and Lynch Family Foundation DuPont Nutrition & Health The Governor’s Woods Foundation FMC Corporation The Morel Family Foundation TE Connectivity 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1. 2018 Awards laureates 2. Chief Astronomer and Awards Host Derrick Pitts 3. Marvin Samson and Debra Cole 4. Bank of America President Jim Dever 5. Jim Dever, Morgan Dever, Robert Kahn, Patrice Lyons, and Lynn Dever 6. Helen Rhoda Quinn, Manijeh Razeghi, and Susan Trumbore 7. Adam Booth and Laura Scolaro 8. Laith Elias, Maria Fritzinger Elias, and Phillipa Ashby 9. Nicole E. Brown and Hugh McStravick 10. Ian and Sheila Wright 11. 2018 Awards leadership: President and CEO Larry Dubinski, Awards Co-Chair Leanne McMenamin, Awards Vice Chair Linda Hauptfuhrer, Awards Co-Chair Michael Forman, Board Chair 11 Donald Jr. Morel, Jr., and Chief Astronomer and Awards Host Derrick Pitts Family and Flight FRED HAGEN ore than 70 years ago up. The pilot of my plane went into in 1943, US Air Force a kind of panic mode, so I grabbed Pilot Bill Benn died my yoke (steering controls) in the while flying his aircraft over what co-pilot seat and I got it under is now Papua New Guinea during control and powered up the right the Second World War. His widow engine and stabilized the plane and family never knew how he lost . It’s that moment of danger and his life. Decades later, his great excitement when something’s nephew and Franklin Institute gone wrong and you’ve recovered supporter Alfred (Fred) Hagen set and managed to survive. Those are out to find his great uncle’s plane the most special moments I have and solve the mystery of his crash. had flying.” “I went to search in New In all, Fred Hagen has participated Guinea for my great-uncle, and in dozens of attempts to salvage Alfred Hagen and John McFadden I was searching for his aircraft. I did locate Bill Benn’s plane, and ascertain how and why he died and what the conditions were “ . It’s that moment of danger and excitement of his death, and was able to bring back some artifacts from where something’s gone wrong and you’ve that plane for his widow and his daughter.” recovered and managed to survive. Those are Fred Hagen’s fascination with history and aviation began at an early age. Over time, that evolved the most special moments I have had flying.” into a search for missing aircraft in the South Pacific, North Africa, and the United States. Eventually, Hagen missing aircrafts. He credits modern traveled as a trained pilot to recover technology with making such other downed military planes and searches possible and continues the crew inside for repatriation. to support efforts to bring home Of a particularly harrowing downed airplanes and crews. experience in the air, Hagen recalls, Via Hagen & Hagen Construction “I was looking for the B17 Swamp alongside Lisa D. Kabnick and Ghost in Papua New Guinea and I John H. McFadden, Fred Hagen’s was flying a twin baron and had a affinity for aviation led him to local pilot flying it. I was sitting in generously support the restoration the copilot seat. He hit a coconut of The Franklin Institute’s Budd palm with the left engine. When BB1 Pioneer, which returned home we went to power up, it just blew in December 2017. 5 PLANES, TRAINS, AND FAILED PROTOTYPES ast December, The Franklin welded steel airplane to the growing trend, Baldwin doubled Philadelphia, Institute welcomed one of Institute. Even after logging down on its steam engines by home to L them—the historic Budd 1,700 hours in the air—including creating the Baldwin 60,000. BB1 Pioneer airplane—back to its flights over the Alps between Then the heaviest locomotive invention and perch outside our iconic building France and Italy—Budd saw this ever built, the company toured after more than a year of off-site engineering marvel as nothing the engine around the United innovation restoration. more than a business failure. The States where it outpaced any Founded in Philadelphia in reason? The Budd was ahead of diesel engine on the market—and since its 1912, the Budd Company grew its time. Though shot welding also crushed the rails in some to prominence by producing avoided corrosion and doubled places due to its colossal weight. earliest days, sheet metal for the booming seam strength when compared to Because of this, the Baldwin automobile industry. Around the older welding methods, pilots and Company generously donated the gave the world same time, the Wright Brothers passengers simply did not trust it, 60,000 to The Franklin Institute were dominating the burgeoning perceiving the lightweight, sleek in 1933 (it would take five days many firsts. world of air travel, with aspiring stainless steel to be incapable of to move the locomotive to its pilots flocking to Dayton, Ohio withstanding in-flight pressures.