Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)
The Benjamin Franklin Medal is a highly endowed award in the fields of science and technology given by the American Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, USA.
Franklin Medal Prize Winner
Franklin Medal laureate in 1915, including Thomas Alva Edison
| year | Laureate | category |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Thomas Alva Edison | Engineering |
| 1915 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | physics |
| 1916 | John J. Carty | Engineering |
| 1916 | Theodore William Richards | chemistry |
| 1917 | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | physics |
| 1917 | David W. Taylor | Engineering |
| 1918 | Guglielmo Marconi | Engineering |
| 1918 | Thomas Corwin Mendenhall | physics |
| 1919 | James Dewar | physics |
| 1919 | George Owen Squier | Engineering |
| 1920 | Svante Arrhenius | chemistry |
| 1920 | Charles Parsons | Engineering |
| 1921 | Charles Fabry | physics |
| 1921 | Frank Julian Sprague | Engineering |
| 1922 | Ralph Modjeski | Engineering |
| 1922 | Joseph John Thomson | physics |
| 1923 | Gustave-Auguste Ferrié | Engineering / Computer and Cognitive Science |
| 1923 | Albert A. Michelson | physics |
| 1924 | Ernest Rutherford | chemistry |
| 1924 | Edward Weston | Engineering |
| 1925 | Elihu Thomson | Engineering |
| 1925 | Pieter Zeeman | physics |
| 1926 | Niels Bohr | physics |
| 1926 | Samuel Rea | Engineering |
| 1927 | George Ellery Hale | physics |
| 1927 | Max Planck | physics |
| 1928 | Charles Francis Brush | Engineering |
| 1928 | Walther Nernst | chemistry |
| 1929 | Emil Berliner | Engineering |
| 1929 | Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | physics |
| 1930 | William Henry Bragg | physics |
| 1930 | John Frank Stevens | Engineering |
| 1931 | James Jeans | physics |
| 1931 | Willis Rodney Whitney | Engineering |
| 1932 | Philipp Lenard | physics |
| 1932 | Ambrose Swasey | Engineering |
| 1933 | Paul Sabatier | chemistry |
| 1933 | Orville Wright | Engineering |
| 1934 | Irving Langmuir | chemistry |
| 1934 | Henry Norris Russell | physics |
| 1935 | Albert Einstein | physics |
| 1935 | John Ambrose Fleming | Engineering |
| 1936 | Frank B. Jewett | Engineering |
| 1936 | Charles Kettering | Engineering |
| 1937 | Peter Debye | chemistry |
| 1937 | Robert Andrews Millikan | physics |
| 1938 | William Frederick Durand | Engineering |
| 1938 | Charles August Kraus | chemistry |
| 1939 | Edwin Hubble | physics |
| 1939 | Albert Sauveur | Engineering |
| 1940 | Leo Hendrik Baekeland | Engineering |
| 1940 | Arthur Holly Compton | physics |
| 1941 | Edwin Howard Armstrong | Engineering |
| 1941 | CV Raman | physics |
| 1942 | Jerome Hunsaker | Engineering |
| 1942 | Paul Dyer Merica | Engineering |
| 1943 | George W. Pierce | Engineering |
| 1943 | Harold C. Urey | physics |
| 1944 | William David Coolidge | Engineering |
| 1944 | Pyotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza | physics |
| 1945 | Harlow Shapley | physics |
| 1946 | Henry Clapp Sherman | Life sciences |
| 1946 | Henry Tizard | Engineering |
| 1947 | Enrico Fermi | physics |
| 1947 | Robert Robinson | chemistry |
| 1948 | Wendell Meredith Stanley | Life sciences |
| 1948 | Theodore von Kármán | Engineering |
| 1949 | The Svedberg | Life sciences |
| 1950 | Eugene Paul Wigner | physics |
| 1951 | James Chadwick | physics |
| 1952 | Wolfgang Pauli | physics |
| 1953 | William Francis Gibbs | Engineering |
| 1954 | Charles E. Mees | Engineering |
| 1955 | Arne Tiselius | Life sciences |
| 1956 | Frank Whittle | Engineering |
| 1957 | Hugh Stott Taylor | chemistry |
| 1958 | Donald Wills Douglas | Engineering |
| 1959 | Hans Bethe | physics |
| 1960 | Roger Adams | Engineering |
| 1961 | Detlev Bronk | Life sciences |
| 1962 | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | Life sciences |
| 1963 | Glenn Theodore Seaborg | physics |
| 1964 | Gregory Broad | physics |
| 1965 | Frederick Seitz | Engineering |
| 1966 | Britton chance | Life sciences |
| 1967 | Murray Gell-Mann | physics |
| 1968 | Marshall Warren Nirenberg | Life sciences |
| 1969 | John Archibald Wheeler | physics |
| 1970 | Wolfgang Panofsky | physics |
| 1971 | Hannes Alfvén | physics |
| 1972 | George Bogdan Kistiakowsky | chemistry |
| 1973 | Theodosius Dobzhansky | Life sciences |
| 1974 | Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Bogolyubov | physics |
| 1975 | John Bardeen | physics |
| 1976 | Mahlon Hoagland | Life sciences |
| 1977 | Cyril Manton Harris | Engineering |
| 1978 | Elias James Corey Jr. | chemistry |
| 1979 | George Evelyn Hutchinson | Life sciences |
| 1980 | Avram Goldstein | Life sciences |
| 1980 | Lyman sharpener | physics |
| 1981 | Stephen Hawking | physics |
| 1982 | César Milstein | Life sciences |
| 1982 | Kenneth Wilson | physics |
| 1984 | Verner E. Suomi | Engineering |
| 1985 | George C. Pimentel | physics |
| 1986 | Benoît almond bread | physics |
| 1987 | Stanley Cohen | Life sciences |
| 1988 | Donald Ervin Knuth | Computer and cognitive science |
| 1990 | Hugh Esmor Huxley | Life sciences |
| 1990 | David Turnbull | physics |
| 1992 | Frederick Reines | physics |
| 1995 | Gerardus' t Hooft | physics |
| 1996 | Richard E. Smalley | chemistry |
| 1997 | Mario Capecchi | Life sciences |
Prize winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal
| year | Laureate | category |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Emmanuel Desurvire | Engineering |
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin | physics |
| 1998 | David N. Payne | Engineering |
| 1998 | Stanley Prusiner | Life sciences |
| 1998 | Horst Ludwig Störmer | physics |
| 1998 | Daniel Chee Tsui | physics |
| 1998 | Ahmed Zewail | chemistry |
| 1999 | Noam Chomsky | Computer and cognitive science |
| 1999 | Douglas C. Engelbart | Computer and cognitive science |
| 1999 | Walter Kaminsky | chemistry |
| 1999 | Barry Marshall | Life sciences |
| 1999 | John C. Mather | physics |
| 1999 | Richard W. Shorthill | Computer and cognitive science |
| 1999 | Akira Tonomura | physics |
| 1999 | Victor Vali | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2000 | John Cocke | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2000 | Eric A. Cornell | physics |
| 2000 | Gordon Danby | mechanical engineering |
| 2000 | Eville Gorham | earth sciences |
| 2000 | Robert Grubbs | chemistry |
| 2000 | Wolfgang Ketterle | physics |
| 2000 | Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie | Electrical engineering |
| 2000 | James R. Powell | mechanical engineering |
| 2000 | Carl E. Wieman | physics |
| 2001 | Judah Folkman | Life sciences |
| 2001 | Alan Guth | physics |
| 2001 | Marvin Minsky | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2001 | Barry Sharpless | chemistry |
| 2001 | Rob Van der Voo | earth sciences |
| 2001 | Bernard Widrow | Electrical engineering |
| 2002 | Norman Allinger | chemistry |
| 2002 | Mary-Dell Chilton | Life sciences |
| 2002 | Sumio Iijima | physics |
| 2002 | Shuji Nakamura | Engineering |
| 2002 | Alexandra Navrotsky | earth sciences |
| 2002 | Lucy Suchman | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2003 | Bishnu S. Atal | Electrical engineering |
| 2003 | John N. Bahcall | physics |
| 2003 | Raymond Davis Junior | physics |
| 2003 | Jane Goodall | Life sciences |
| 2003 | Robin M. Hochstrasser | chemistry |
| 2003 | Masatoshi Koshiba | physics |
| 2003 | John McCarthy | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2003 | Norman A. Phillips | earth sciences |
| 2003 | Joseph Smagorinsky | earth sciences |
| 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 Blackburn | Life sciences |
| 2005 | Aravind Joshi | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2005 | Yōichirō Nambu | physics |
| 2005 | Peter R. Vail | earth sciences |
| 2005 | Andrew J. Viterbi | Electrical engineering |
| 2006 | Ray W. Clough | Engineering |
| 2006 | Samuel Danishefsky | chemistry |
| 2006 | Luna Bergere Leopold | earth sciences |
| 2006 | Donald Norman | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2006 | Fernando Nottebohm | Life sciences |
| 2006 | Giacinto Scoles | physics |
| 2006 | Jan Peter Toennies | physics |
| 2006 | M. Gordon Wolman | earth sciences |
| 2007 | Klaus Biemann | chemistry |
| 2007 | Robert H. Dennard | Electrical engineering |
| 2007 | Merton C. Flemings | Materials science |
| 2007 | Arthur McDonald | physics |
| 2007 | Steve Squyres | earth sciences |
| 2007 | Yōji Totsuka | physics |
| 2007 | Nancy S. Wexler | Life sciences |
| 2008 | Victor Ambros | Life sciences |
| 2008 | David Baulcombe | Life sciences |
| 2008 | Wallace S. Broecker | earth sciences |
| 2008 | Albert Eschenmoser | chemistry |
| 2008 | Deborah Jin | physics |
| 2008 | Judea Pearl | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2008 | Arun Phadke | Electrical engineering |
| 2008 | Gary Ruvkun | Life sciences |
| 2008 | James Thorp | Electrical engineering |
| 2009 | Ruzena Bajcsy | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2009 | Stephen Benkovic | Life sciences |
| 2009 | Frederick Grassle | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2009 | Richard J. Robbins | Engineering |
| 2009 | George Whitesides | chemistry |
| 2009 | Lotfi Zadeh | Electrical engineering |
| 2010 | Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain | physics |
| 2010 | Shafrira Goldwasser | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2010 | Peter Nowell | Life sciences |
| 2010 | Gerhard Sessler | Electrical engineering |
| 2010 | D. Brian Spalding | mechanical engineering |
| 2010 | JoAnne Stubbe | chemistry |
| 2010 | James E. West | Electrical engineering |
| 2010 | David Wineland | physics |
| 2010 | Peter Zoller | physics |
| 2011 | Nicola Cabibbo | physics |
| 2011 | John R. Anderson | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2011 | Jillian F. Banfield | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2011 | Ingrid Daubechies | Electrical engineering |
| 2011 | Dean came | mechanical engineering |
| 2011 | Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou | chemistry |
| 2012 | Rashid Sunyaev | physics |
| 2012 | Vladimir Vapnik | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2012 | Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2012 | Lonnie G. Thompson | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2012 | Jerry Nelson | Electrical engineering |
| 2012 | Zvi Hashin | mechanical engineering |
| 2012 | Sean B. Carroll | Life sciences |
| 2013 | Jerrold Meinwald | chemistry |
| 2013 | William Labov | Cognitive science |
| 2013 | Robert A. Berner | Environmental science |
| 2013 | Rudolf Jaenisch | Life sciences |
| 2013 | Subra Suresh | Materials science |
| 2013 | Alexander Dalgarno | physics |
| 2014 | Shunichi Kawasaki | Electrical engineering |
| 2014 | Christopher T. Walsh | chemistry |
| 2014 | Joachim Frank | Life sciences |
| 2014 | Daniel Kleppner | physics |
| 2014 | Mark Kryder | Electrical engineering |
| 2014 | Lisa Tauxe | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2014 | Ali H. Nayfeh | mechanical engineering |
| 2015 | Syukuro Manabe | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2015 | Stephen J. Lippard | chemistry |
| 2015 | Shoucheng Zhang | physics |
| 2015 | Roger F. Harrington | Electrical engineering |
| 2015 | Eugene J. Mele | physics |
| 2015 | Elissa L. Newport | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2015 | Cornelia Bargmann | Life sciences |
| 2015 | Charles L. Kane | physics |
| 2016 | Nadrian C. Seeman | chemistry |
| 2016 | Yale N. Patt | Computer science and cognitive science |
| 2016 | Brian F. Atwater | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2016 | Solomon W. Golomb | Electrical engineering |
| 2016 | Robert S. Langer | Life sciences |
| 2016 | Shu Chien | mechanical engineering |
| 2017 | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski | chemistry |
| 2017 | Mitsuo Sawamoto | chemistry |
| 2017 | Michael I. Posner | Cognitive science |
| 2017 | Nick Holonyak | Electrical engineering |
| 2017 | Douglas C. Wallace | Life sciences |
| 2017 | Mildred S. Dresselhaus | Materials science |
| 2017 | Marvin L. Cohen | physics |
| 2018 | John B. Goodenough | chemistry |
| 2018 | Vinton Gray Cerf | Computer science and cognitive science |
| 2018 | Robert E. Kahn | Computer science and cognitive science |
| 2018 | Susan Trumbore | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2018 | Manijeh Razeghi | Electrical engineering |
| 2018 | Adrian Bejan | mechanical engineering |
| 2018 | Helen Rhoda Quinn | physics |
| 2019 | Eli Yablonovitch | Electrical engineering |
| 2019 | Gene E. Likens | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2019 | Marcia K. Johnson | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2019 | James P. Allison | Life sciences |
| 2019 | John A. Rogers | Materials science |
| 2019 | John J. Hopfield | physics |
| 2020 | Roberto Car | chemistry |
| 2020 | Michele Parrinello | chemistry |
| 2020 | Monica G. Turner | Earth and environmental sciences |
| 2020 | Barbara H. Partee | Computer and cognitive science |
| 2020 | Jeremy Nathans | Life sciences |
| 2020 | C. Daniel Mote | mechanical engineering |
| 2020 | Henry C. Kapteyn | physics |
| 2020 | Margaret M. Murnane | physics |