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The [[Lemelson Foundation]] awards several prizes yearly to [[inventor]]s in the [[United States]]. The largest is the '''Lemelson–MIT Prize''' which was endowed in 1994 by [[Jerome H. Lemelson]], and is administered through the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for [[invention]] in the U.S.
From 1995 through 2006, the $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award and the $30,000 Lemelson–MIT Student Prize were also presented along with the Lemelson–MIT prize. In 2007 the Lifetime Achievement award was replaced with the $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability. In 2007 the Lemelson Foundation also introduced two additional $30,000 student prizes to be awarded at [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] and the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. A student prize for the [[California Institute of Technology]] was added in 2009 and canceled in 2011.
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===2001===
* [[Raymond Kurzweil]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize
* [[Raymond Damadian]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
* [[Brian Hubert]] (Lemelson–MIT Student Prize)
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