Slide images: photographs showing four NSF-funded award-winning scientists:
(top left) Jean Tirole, winner of the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his analysis of market power and regulation."
(top right) W.E. (William Esco) Moerner, Stanford University, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for having bypassed a presumed scientific limitation stipulating that an optical microscope can never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometers."
(bottom left) Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University, was awarded the Fields Medal "for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers."
(bottom right) Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded the 2014 Fields Medal for "her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces." She is the first woman in the prize's 80-year history to earn the distinction

Image credits: (top left) Madame Tirole, IDEI, CC BY-SA 3.0
(top right) Stanford University
(bottom left) Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
(bottom right) Courtesy of Maryam Mirzakhani