IEEE Medal of Honor
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which has been awarded annually in the field of information and electrical engineering for extraordinary work and careers since 1917. The award consists of a bronze medal, a certificate and an endowment. It is only given to individual, natural persons.
The award represents the continuation of the IRE Medal of Honor previously awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) , which was awarded separately from the IEEE until 1963.
Award winners
The winners are:
- 1917: Edwin Howard Armstrong
- 1918: No award
- 1919: Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson
- 1920: Guglielmo Marconi
- 1921: Reginald Fessenden
- 1922: Lee De Forest
- 1923: John Stone Stone
- 1924: Mihajlo Pupin
- 1926: Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
- 1927: Louis W. Austin
- 1928: Jonathan Zenneck
- 1929: George W. Pierce
- 1930: Peder Oluf Pedersen
- 1931: Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
- 1932: Arthur Edwin Kennelly
- 1933: John Ambrose Fleming
- 1934: Stanford C. Hooper
- 1935: Balthasar van der Pol
- 1936: George Ashley Campbell
- 1937: Melville Eastham
- 1938: John Howard Dellinger
- 1939: Albert G. Lee
- 1940: Lloyd Espenschied
- 1941: Alfred N. Goldsmith
- 1942: Albert H. Taylor
- 1943: William Wilson
- 1944: Haraden Pratt
- 1945: Harold Henry Beverage
- 1946: Ralph Hartley
- 1947: No award
- 1948: Lawrence CF Horle
- 1949: Ralph Bown
- 1950: Frederick Terman
- 1951: Vladimir Zworykin
- 1952: Walter RG Baker
- 1953: John Milton Miller
- 1954: William L. Everitt
- 1955: Harald Friis
- 1956: John VL Hogan
- 1957: Julius Adams Stratton
- 1958: Albert W. Hull
- 1959: Emory Leon Chaffee
- 1960: Harry Nyquist
- 1961: Ernst A. Guillemin
- 1962: Edward Victor Appleton
- 1963: George C. Southworth
- 1964: Harold Alden Wheeler
- 1965: No award
- 1966: Claude Elwood Shannon
- 1967: Charles H. Townes
- 1968: Gordon K. Teal
- 1969: Edward Ginzton
- 1970: Dennis Gábor
- 1971: John Bardeen
- 1972: Jay Wright Forrester
- 1973: Rudolf Kompfner
- 1974: Rudolf Kálmán
- 1975: John R. Pierce
- 1976: No award
- 1977: H. Earle Vaughan
- 1978: Robert Noyce
- 1979: Richard Bellman
- 1980: William B. Shockley
- 1981: Sidney Darlington
- 1982: John W. Tukey
- 1983: Nicolaas Bloembergen
- 1984: Norman Ramsey
- 1985: John Roy Whinnery
- 1986: Jack Kilby
- 1987: Paul Christian Lauterbur
- 1988: Calvin Quate
- 1989: C. Kumar N. Patel
- 1990: Robert Gray Gallager
- 1991: Leo Esaki
- 1992: Amos E. Joel
- 1993: Karl Johan Åström
- 1994: Alfred Y. Cho
- 1995: Lotfi Zadeh
- 1996: Robert Metcalfe
- 1997: George H. Heilmeier
- 1998: Donald Pederson
- 1999: Charles Concordia
- 2000: Andrew Grove
- 2001: Herwig Kogelnik
- 2002: Herbert Kroemer
- 2003: Nick Holonyak
- 2004: Tadahiro Sekimoto
- 2005: James L. Flanagan
- 2006: James D. Meindl
- 2007: Thomas Kailath
- 2008: Gordon Moore
- 2009: Robert H. Dennard
- 2010: Andrew J. Viterbi
- 2011: Morris Chang
- 2012: John L. Hennessy
- 2013: Irwin Mark Jacobs
- 2014: B. Jayant Baliga
- 2015: Mildred Dresselhaus
- 2016: G. David Forney
- 2017: Kornelis A. Schouhamer Immink
- 2018: Bradford W. Parkinson
- 2019: Kurt E. Petersen
- 2020: Chenming Hu
Individual evidence
- ↑ IEEE Medal of Honor , (Eng.)
- ↑ IEEE Medal of Honor award winners (PDF; 117 kB), IEEE, requested on February 3, 2012, (English)
- ↑ 2020 IEEE MEDALS AND RECOGNITIONS RECIPIENTS AND CITATIONS (PDF, 169 kB); accessed on December 4, 2019.