Lemelson-MIT Prize

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The Lemelson-MIT Prize, endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, and administered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is awarded to inventors from the United States for outstanding achievement. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S.

In addition to $500,000 prize, there is also a $100,000 Award for Sustainability and $30,000 student prize.

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[edit] List of winners

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2005

  • Elwood "Woody" Norris for his invention of a hypersonic sound system, which allows sound to be focused with laser-like precision.

[edit] 2004

  • Nick Holonyak, Jr.
  • Edith Flanigen (Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • Saul Griffith (Student Prize)

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2002

  • Dean Kamen for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
  • Ruth R. Benerito (Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • Andrew Heafitz (Student Prize)
  • Kavita Shukla (Invention Apprentice)

[edit] 2001

  • Raymond Kurzweil
  • Raymond Damadian (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • Brian Hubert (Student Prize)
  • Jordan Sand (Invention Apprentice)

[edit] 2000

  • Thomas Fogarty
  • Al Gross (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.
  • Amy Smith (Student Prize)
  • Charles Johnson (Invention Apprentice)
  • Michael Lim, Jalal Khan, and Thomas Murphy received a one-time student team prize

[edit] 1999

[edit] 1998

  • Robert Langer
  • Jacob Rabinow (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 (Student Prize)

[edit] 1997

  • Douglas Engelbart for his invention of the computer mouse.
  • Gertrude Elion (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 (Student Prize)

[edit] 1996

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

[edit] 1995

  • William Bolander
  • William Hewlett (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • David Packard (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • Thomas Massie (Student Prize)

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