- Lemelson-MIT Prize
The $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, presented by the
Lemelson-MIT Program (endowed in1994 byJerome H. Lemelson , and administered through theMassachusetts Institute of Technology ) is awarded yearly toinventor s from theUnited States for outstanding achievement. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize forinvention 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. Also introduced in 2007 were two additional $30,000 student prizes to be awarded at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .List of winners
2008
* Joseph DeSimone (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
* Martin Fisher (Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability)
*Timothy Lu (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
*Martin Schubert (Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize)
*Patrick Walsh (Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize)2007
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Timothy Swager (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
*Lee Lynd (Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability)
*Nathan Ball (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
*Brian Schulkin (Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize)
*Michael Callahan (Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize)2006
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James Fergason (Lemelson-MIT Prize) for his liquid crystal display innovations.
*Sidney Pestka (Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*Carl Dietrich (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)2005
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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
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Nick Holonyak , Jr. (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
*Edith M. Flanigen (Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*Saul Griffith (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)2003
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Leroy Hood (Lemelson-MIT Prize) for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.
*William Murphy, Jr (Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*James McLurkin (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize) [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/03.html 10-min. video about him] onNOVA scienceNOW 2002
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Dean Kamen (Lemelson-MIT Prize) for his invention of theSegway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
*Ruth R. Benerito (Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*Andrew Heafitz (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
*Kavita Shukla (Lemelson-MIT Invention Apprentice)2001
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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)
*Jordan Sand (Lemelson-MIT Invention Apprentice)2000
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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.
*Amy Smith (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
* Charles Johnson (Lemelson-MIT Invention Apprentice)
*Michael Lim ,Jalal Khan , and Thomas Murphy (Lemelson-MIT Student Team Prize, one time award)1999
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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 fabricKevlar .
*Daniel DiLorenzo (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)
*Krysta Morlan (Lemelson-MIT Invention Apprentice)1998
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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
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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
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William Bolander (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
*William Hewlett (Co-recipient, Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*David Packard (Co-recipient, Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
*Thomas Massie (Lemelson-MIT Student Prize)ee also
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Lemelson-MIT Program
*Jerome H. Lemelson External links
* [http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html Lemelson-MIT Program Official Web site]
* [http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners.html Lemelson-MIT Program: Winner's Circle]
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