Lemelson–MIT Prize

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2019

• Cody Friesen (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[1]

2018

• Luis von Ahn (Lemelson–MIT Prize) [2]

2017

• Feng Zhang (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[1]

2016

• Ramesh Raskar (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[3]

2015

• Jay Whitacre (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[4]

2014

• Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Lemelson–MIT Prize) ([1]

2013

• Angela Belcher (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[5]
• Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)

2012

Stephen Quake

• Stephen Quake (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[6]

(Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Professor of Biophysics and Genomics at Stanford University)

• Ashok Gadgil (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)

2011

John A. Rogers

• John A. Rogers (Lemelson–MIT Prize)

(Professor, Physical Chemist, and Materials Scientist at Northwestern University)

• Elizabeth Hausler (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

2010

Carolyn Bertozzi, receiving the Emanuel Merck Lectureship in 2011

• Carolyn Bertozzi (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• BP Agrawal (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

2009

Chad Mirkin

• Chad Mirkin (Lemelson–MIT Prize)

George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University

• Joel Selanikio[7] (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

CEO and co-Founder, Magpi, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital

Joel Selanikio

2008

• Joseph DeSimone (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• Martin Fisher (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

2007

• Timothy M. Swager (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• Lee Lynd (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

2006

• James Fergason (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his liquid crystal display innovations.
• Sidney Pestka (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

Sidney Pestka (middle) receives the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush (right)

2005

• Robert Dennard (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

2004

• Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Prize)

(John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Edith M. Flanigen (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

Nick Holonyak Jr.,

2003

• Leroy Hood (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.
• William P. Murphy Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

2002

President Clinton and Dean Kamen in the White House, Kamen riding the iBOT Mobility System

• Dean Kamen (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
• Ruth R. Benerito (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

2001

Ray Kurzweil

• Raymond Kurzweil (Lemelson–MIT Prize)

(Author, Computer scientist, Inventor and Futurist at Google)

• Raymond Damadian (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

2000

• Thomas Fogarty (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• Al Gross (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.

1999

• Carver Mead (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• Stephanie Kwolek (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the armored fabric Kevlar.

1998

Bob Langer

• Robert Langer (Lemelson–MIT Prize)

(David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Jacob Rabinow (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the first disc-shaped magnetic storage media for computers, the magnetic particle clutch, the first straight-line phonograph, the first self-regulating clock, and a "reading machine" which was the first to use the "best match" principle.

1997

Douglas Engelbart

• Douglas Engelbart (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (computer and Internet pioneer) for his invention of the computer mouse.
• Gertrude Elion (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the following inventions:
  • 6-mercaptopurine (Purinethol), the first treatment for leukemia.
  • azathioprine (Imuran), the first immunosuppressive agent, used for organ transplants.
  • allopurinol (Zyloprim), for gout.
  • pyrimethamine (Daraprim), for malaria.
  • trimethoprim (Septra), for meningitis, sepsis, and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts.
  • acyclovir (Zovirax), for herpes simplex virus infection.

1996

• Stanley Norman Cohen (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
• Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
• Wilson Greatbatch (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.

1995

• William Bolander (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
• William Hewlett (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
• David Packard (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

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