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Lemelson–MIT Prize

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The Lemelson Foundation awards several prizes yearly to inventors in 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.

List of winners

2012

  • Stephen Quake (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[1]
  • Ashok Gadgil (Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation)
  • Miles Barr (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
  • Fazel Yavari (Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize)
  • Kevin Karsch (Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize)

2011

  • John A. Rogers (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • Elizabeth Hausler (Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability)
  • Alice Chen (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
  • Scott Diagle (Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize)
  • Guoan Zheng (Lemelson-MIT CalTech Student Prize)

2010

  • Carolyn Bertozzi (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • BP Agrawal (Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability)
  • Erez Lieberman Aiden (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
  • Javad Rafiee (Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize)
  • Jonathan Naber (Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize)
  • Heather Agnew (Lemelson-MIT CalTech Student Prize)

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

  • Elwood "Woody" Norris (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of a hypersonic sound system, which allows sound to be focused with laser-like precision.
  • Robert Dennard (Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • David Berry (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

  • Robert Langer (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • 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.
  • Akhil Madhani (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)

1997

  • Douglas Engelbart (Lemelson–MIT Prize) 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 immuno-suppressive agent, used for organ transplants.
    • allopurinol (Zyloprim), for gout.
    • pyrimethamine (Daraprim), for malaria.
    • trimethoprim (Septra), for meningitis, septicemia, and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts.
    • acyclovir (Zovirax), for viral herpes.
  • Nathan Kane (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)

1996

  • Stanley 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.
  • David Levy (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)

1995

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stanford professor wins $500G MIT invention prize". Fox News. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
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