Company History
The story of Manhattan Scientifics begins with the holographic research component of the Company. In the late 1980s the Microelectronics & Computer Corporation (MCC), invested approximately $25 million in holographic data storage research. 

The research produced no conclusive results. However, Manhattan Scientifics CEO, Marvin Maslow, fascinated by the potential of holographic storage, was reluctant to give up, believing that eventually, its time would come. He decided a more intense and focused research effort, with new expertise, might eventually produce the long-sought results. 

Meanwhile, in August 1997 Maslow visited Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to investigate new technologies with commercialization potential. LANL’s Civilian Industrial Technology Program Office, functioning in the capacity of matchmaker, introduced Maslow to Robert Hockaday, a LANL physicist who had taken entrepreneurial leave-of-absence to refine a patented MicroFuel Cell technology he had been developing with his own funds. Maslow recognized that the holographic project might benefit from the expertise of Los Alamos National Laboratory materials science experts, and, combined with the MicroFuel Cell technology, would be a solid foundation for a technology incubator to commercialize leading-edge technologies. 

Knowing that fledgling companies can flounder during the standard capitalization process of protracted analysis and negotiations, and that getting a new technology to market quickly is crucial to success, Maslow deployed what he calls a "guerrilla financing" strategy. In a period of approximately four months he formed Manhattan Scientifics, Inc., raised the capital Hockaday estimated he needed to begin intensive development of a working prototype, and took the Company public on January 9, 1998 by means of a reverse merger.

Management Profiles
Marvin Maslow
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.
Marvin Maslow pursues an investment strategy that is best described as guerrilla entrepreneurship. The traditional entrepreneurial path usually wanders through a maze involving meticulous study of business plans, analysis of balance sheets, investigation of profit potential, followed by protracted negotiations with the company seeking funding. By then, the fledgling company may have dissolved for lack of capital to continue its project. 

Maslow cuts to the chase. 

Does the company have a high-potential, proprietary product or technology? As important, what are the people like? Maslow invests in people because he believes it is the perseverance, creativity and vision of people that will advance a product or technology to its full potential.

However, Maslow’s ‘just do it’ style is tempered with an extensive business background and a clear vision of future application of the technology. As a merchant banker, he founded and managed 10 successful enterprises. Later, Maslow was the principal in a private investment company and placed substantial capital in privately held, emerging growth companies. His responsibilities involved managing these investments as well as the growth and direction of their attendant organizations as the companies matured.

Jack Harrod
Chief Operating Officer
Jack Harrod joined Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in August 1998. He leads the Company's research and development strategy and is tasked with finding, evaluating, and launching new business opportunities related to those technologies. 

Before joining Manhattan Scientifics, Harrod worked for Texas Instruments (TI) for 32 years in a variety of leadership positions. As an executive vice president, he led TI's Corporate Venture Projects organization that included managing the Digital Imaging activity from its inception in 1992 as an entrepreneurial venture to initial production. That venture was set up to develop and exploit the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) to initial production and market introduction of products based on the resulting Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology. Harrod accomplished this by setting up a worldwide network of partnerships and alliances that, along with his own organization, allowed first-to-market product (SVGA) performance and helped provide the basis for TI's market position today.

The technologies developed to commercialization under Harrod's direction won numerous prizes for innovation including the Eduard Rheim Technology Award, PC Magazine's New Peripheral Product of the Year Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Awards "Oscar", and others.

Tom Anderson
CEO, Novint Technologies
Novint Technologies’ President, Founder, and CEO, was the inventor and principal investigator during the five-year e-Touch™ project at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, Tom was a pioneer in the field of haptics (haptics refers to our sense of touch) and developed the core technology for Novint’s applications. He was a Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia until he obtained an exclusive license from Sandia and founded Novint Technologies. Tom has a BS in Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of New Mexico, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, where he studied both computer interface technology and business management.

Science and Business Advisory Board

Donald J. Sandstrom
Donald J. Sandstrom retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory after 30 years of employment. During his career at the Laboratory he was involved in the development of materials and processing technologies that were applied to virtually all of the technical and scientific programs of the Laboratory where materials and/or materials processing expertise were required. 

Sandstrom has always had a very strong interest and involvement in Technology Transfer and he has been a leader in the promotion and encouragement of the transfer of Laboratory-developed technologies to the private sector. He assumed a lead role in the development of new processes for the manufacture of precision microminiature components, the development of polymer thin films and the synthesis of special "doped" polymer films that had specialized chemical and mechanical properties.

In the three years immediately preceding his retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandstrom was given a special assignment to serve as the Principal Technical Advisor to the President of EG&G/Rocky Flats. In this capacity, he assisted the EG&G/RF management in the definition of appropriate planning and management of the clean-up of the former nuclear weapons production plant in Rocky Flats, Colorado.

For his efforts in developing the Necessary and Sufficient Standards for the safe management, operations and conduct of work at the Laboratory, Sandstrom received citations from both Vice-President Al Gore and then Secretary of Energy, Hazel O’Leary, for his contributions to both the Laboratory and National Programs aimed at the re-engineering of the federal government. 

Martin Cooper
Martin Cooper is widely recognized as a pioneer in the personal communications industry and has been called the father of cellular telephony after introducing the first portable cellular radiotelephone in 1973. 

Mr. Cooper joined Motorola in 1954 as a research engineer and advanced through a number of engineering and management positions before becoming a corporate officer in 1969, vice president and general manager of the Communications Systems Division in 1977 and finally Corporate Director of Research and Development for Motorola, Inc., responsible for the creation and stimulation of technology throughout Motorola. 

During his 29-year tenure at Motorola, Mr. Cooper was involved in the creation of a number of major businesses including:

High-capacity paging – annual sales in 1996 over $1 billion; trunked mobile radio systems (knows as SMRS) – annual sales over $1 billion; cellular radio telephone – annual sales over $20 billion; quartz crystals, oscillators, liquid crystal displays, and piezo-electric components – annual sales several hundred million dollars; Motorola A.M. Stereo technology, earning in excess of $1 million a year in royalties; various mobile and portable two way radio product lines
After leaving Motorola he founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI), now a part of Cincinnati Bell. Before its acquisition, CBSI provided billing and management services to most cellular companies in the U.S. 

Mr. Cooper was awarded the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the RCA Fred Link award in 1996. Mr. Cooper has served on technical committees of the Electronic Industries Association and the National Research Council as well as numerous industry and civic groups. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the International Electronics Consortium and serves on its Advisory Board.

George A. Cowan
George Cowan is a founding member of the Santa Fe Institute, a world-renown research center for complex, adaptive systems. He became president on its incorporation in 1984, retired from this position in 1991 but continues to serve on the board and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute. 

However, founding the Santa Fe Institute was only one accomplishment in a long and diverse career in fields as diverse as nuclear physics and banking. Trained as a physical chemist, Mr. Cowan graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941, joined the Physics Department at Princeton to work under Eugene Wigners direction on research leading to the design of the first uranium chain reactor. 

Mr. Cowan became an instructor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh while completing work on his graduate degree. In 1949 he returned to Los Alamos and helped identify products from the first Russian atomic bomb test. He continued at Los Alamos, retiring from full time employment in 1988 after serving as Associate Director for Research and Senior Laboratory Fellow. During this period, he was awarded the New Mexico Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist Award, the Robert H. Goddard Award, and the E.O. Lawrence Award. He served on the White House Science Council in the Reagan years. In 1991 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize for his contributions during his career as a nuclear scientist. He is a fellow or member of numerous professional societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and Sigma Xi.

Mr. Cowan served on numerous boards and advisory groups of federal, state, and government agencies. These include the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, NAS/NRDC, the Regents of New Mexico Institute of Technology, the Los Alamos Hospital, the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Opera Foundation, the National Center for Genome Resources, and chair of the Los Alamos Concert Association and the Los Alamos Public Utilities Board. He is a board member of the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. In the business community he was a founding director of the Los Alamos National Bank, serving as chair for thirty years during which period it rose to its present position as the largest private bank in New Mexico. He also chairs the board of Trinity Capital Corporation and continues to serve on these and various other boards.