Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)

The Benjamin Franklin Medal is a science and engineering award presented since 1824 by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, PA, USA.^[1]

Partial List of Laureates

• 1889, 1899, 1915 - Thomas Alva Edison (Engineering)
• 1909 - Marie Curie & Pierre Curie (Chemistry)
• 1935 - Albert Einstein (Physics)
• 1970 - Jacques Cousteau (Life Science)
• 1981 - Stephen W. Hawking (Physics)
• 1998 - Emmanuel Desurvire (Engineering)
• 1998 - Robert B. Laughlin (Physics)
• 1998 - David N. Payne (Engineering)
• 1998 - Stanley B. Prusiner (Life Science)
• 1998 - Horst L. Stormer (Physics)
• 1998 - Daniel C. Tsui (Physics)
• 1998 - Ahmed H. Zewail (Chemistry)
• 1999 - Noam Chomsky (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1999 - Douglas C. Engelbart (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1999 - Walter Kaminsky (Chemistry)
• 1999 - Barry J. Marshall (Life Science)
• 1999 - John C. Mather (Physics)
• 1999 - Richard W. Shorthill (Computer and Cognitive Science) (ru:Шортхилл, Ричард)
• 1999 - Akira Tonomura (Physics)
• 1999 - Victor Vali (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2000 - John Cocke (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2000 - Eric Cornell (Physics)
• 2000 - Gordon Danby (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2000 - Eville Gorham (Earth Science)
• 2000 - Robert H. Grubbs (Chemistry)
• 2000 - Wolfgang Ketterle (Physics)
• 2000 - Antoine Labeyrie (Electrical Engineering)
• 2000 - James R. Powell (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2000 - Carl Wieman (Physics)
• 2001 - Judah Folkman (Life Science)
• 2001 - Alan H. Guth (Physics)
• 2001 - Marvin Minsky (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2001 - K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry)
• 2001 - Rob Van der Voo (Earth Science)
• 2001 - Bernard Widrow (Electrical Engineering)
• 2002 - Norman L. Allinger (Chemistry)
• 2002 - Mary-Dell Chilton (Life Science)
• 2002 - Sumio Iijima (Physics)
• 2002 - Shuji Nakamura (Engineering)
• 2002 - Alexandra Navrotsky (Earth Science)
• 2002 - Lucy Suchman (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2003 - Bishnu S. Atal (Electrical Engineering)
• 2003 - John N. Bahcall (Physics)
• 2003 - Raymond Davis (Physics)
• 2003 - Jane Goodall (Life Science)
• 2003 - Robin M. Hochstrasser (Chemistry)
• 2003 - Masatoshi Koshiba (Physics)
• 2003 - John McCarthy (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2003 - Norman A. Phillips (Earth Science)
• 2003 - Joseph Smagorinsky (Earth Science)
• 2003 - Charles H. Thornton (Engineering)
• 2004 - Roger Bacon (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2004 - Harry B. Gray (Chemistry)
• 2004 - Richard M. Karp (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2004 - Robert B. Meyer (Physics)
• 2004 - Robert E. Newnham (Electrical Engineering)
• 2005 - Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (Life Science)
• 2005 - Aravind K. Joshi (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2005 - Yoichiro Nambu (Physics)
• 2005 - Peter R. Vail (Earth Science)
• 2005 - Andrew J. Viterbi (Electrical Engineering)
• 2006 - Ray W. Clough (Engineering)
• 2006 - Samuel J. Danishefsky (Chemistry)
• 2006 - Luna B. Leopold (Earth Science)
• 2006 - Donald Norman (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2006 - Fernando Nottebohm (Life Science)
• 2006 - Giacinto Scoles (Physics)
• 2006 - J. Peter Toennies (Physics)
• 2006 - M. Gordon Wolman (Earth Science)
• 2007 - Klaus Biemann (Chemistry)
• 2007 - Robert H. Dennard (Electrical Engineering)
• 2007 - Merton C. Flemings (Materials Science)
• 2007 - Arthur B. McDonald (Physics)
• 2007 - Steven W. Squyres (Earth Science)
• 2007 - Yoji Totsuka (Physics)
• 2007 - Nancy Wexler (Life Science)
• 2008 - Victor Ambros (Life Science)
• 2008 - David Baulcombe (Life Science)
• 2008 - Wallace Broecker (Earth Science)
• 2008 - Albert Eschenmoser (Chemistry)
• 2008 - Deborah Jin (Physics)
• 2008 - Judea Pearl (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2008 - Arun Phadke (Electrical Engineering)
• 2008 - Gary Ruvkun (Life Science)
• 2008 - James Thorp (Electrical Engineering)
• 2009 - Ruzena Bajcsy (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2009 - Stephen J. Benkovic (Life Science)
• 2009 - J. Frederick Grassle (Earth Science)
• 2009 - Richard J. Robbins (Engineering)
• 2009 - George M. Whitesides (Chemistry)
• 2009 - Lotfi A. Zadeh (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - J. Ignacio Cirac (Physics)
• 2010 - Shafrira Goldwasser (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2010 - Peter C. Nowell (Life Science)
• 2010 - Gerhard M. Sessler (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - D. Brian Spalding (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2010 - JoAnne Stubbe (Chemistry)
• 2010 - James E. West (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - David J. Wineland (Physics)
• 2010 - Peter Zoller (Physics)
• 2011 - John R. Anderson (Computer and Cognitive Science)^[2]
• 2011 - Jillian F. Banfield (Earth and Environmental Science)^[3]
• 2011 - Nicola Cabibbo (Physics)^[4]
• 2011 - Ingrid Daubechies (Electrical Engineering)^[5]
• 2011 - Dean Kamen (Mechanical Engineering)^[6]
• 2011 - K.C. Nicolaou (Chemistry)^[7]
• 2012 - Vladimir Vapnik (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2012 - Lonnie Thompson & Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson (Earth and Environmental Science)
• 2012 - Sean B. Carroll (Life Science)
• 2012 - Jerry Nelson (Electrical Engineering)
• 2012 - Rashid Sunyaev (Physics)
• 2012 - Zvi Hashin (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2013 - Jerrold Meinwald (Chemistry)
• 2013 - William Labov (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2013 - Robert A. Berner (Earth and Environmental Science)
• 2013 - Rudolf Jaenisch (Life Science)
• 2013 - Subra Suresh (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2013 - Alexander Dalgarno (Physics)
• 2013 - Michael Dell (Bower Award)
• 2013 - Kenichi Iga (Bower Award)
• 2014 - Daniel Kleppner (Physics)
• 2014 - Christopher T. Walsh (Chemistry)
• 2014 - Lisa Tauxe (Earth and Environmental Science)
• 2014 - Shunichi Iwasaki & Mark H. Kryder (Electrical Engineering)
• 2014 - Joachim Frank (Life Science)
• 2014 - Ali H. Nayfeh (Mechanical Engineering)

References

Sources

• The Franklin Institute. Winners. Benjamin Franklin Medal winners.