IRI Medal
The IRI Medal has been awarded by the Industrial Research Institute since 1946 for technological innovation and its industrial implementation.
The Industrial Research Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1938 by the National Science Foundation and based in Arlington .
Award winners
- 1946: Willis R. Whitney ( General Electric )
- 1947: Charles A. Thomas ( Monsanto )
- 1948: Games Slayter ( Owens Corning )
- 1949: Vannevar Bush ( Office of Scientific R&D )
- 1950: Frank B. Jewett ( Bell Labs )
- 1951: Randolph T. Major ( Merck )
- 1952: Roy C. Newton ( Swift & Company )
- 1953: Eger V. Murphree ( Standard Oil of NJ )
- 1954: Mervin Joe Kelly (Bell Labs)
- 1955: Ernest H. Volwiler ( Abbott Laboratories )
- 1956: Victor Conquest ( Armor )
- 1957: Clifford F. Rassweiler ( Johns Manville )
- 1958: Elmer W. Engstrom ( RCA )
- 1959: Frank K. Schoenfeld ( BFGoodrich )
- 1960: Augustus B. Kinzel ( Union Carbide )
- 1961: Max Tishler (Merck)
- 1962: Chauncey G. Suits (General Electric)
- 1963: James B. Fisk (Bell Labs)
- 1964: Ray H. Boundy ( Dow Chemical )
- 1965: Edwin H. Land ( Polaroid )
- 1966: Paul L. Salzberg ( DuPont Central Research)
- 1967: Emanuel R. Piore ( IBM )
- 1968: John H. Dessauer ( Xerox )
- 1969: Patrick E. Haggerty ( Texas Instruments )
- 1970: William O. Baker (Bell Labs)
- 1971: Henri G. Busignies ( International Telephone & Telegraph )
- 1972: Peter C. Goldmark (Goldmark Communications)
- 1973: William E. Shoupp ( Westinghouse )
- 1974: Robert W. Cairns ( Hercules )
- 1975: James Hillier (RCA)
- 1976: Hendrik BG Casimir ( NV Philips )
- 1977: John J. Burns ( Hoffmann-La Roche )
- 1978: Malcolm E. Pruitt (Dow Chemical)
- 1979: Arthur M. Bueche (General Electric)
- 1980: Lewis H. Sarett (Merck)
- 1981: William H. Armistead (Corning)
- 1982: N. Bruce Hannay (Bell Labs)
- 1983: Edward E. David Jr. ( Exxon R&E )
- 1984: Harry W. Coover ( Eastman Kodak )
- 1985: Ralph E. Gomory (IBM)
- 1986: George E. Pake (Xerox)
- 1987: Ian M. Ross (Bell Labs)
- 1988: Abraham B. Cohen (DuPont)
- 1989: Roland W. Schmitt (General Electric)
- 1990: Edward M. Scolnick (Merck)
- 1991: Mary L. Good ( AlliedSignal )
- 1992: John S. Mayo (Bell Labs)
- 1993: George H. Heilmeier (Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore))
- 1994: Walter L. Robb (General Electric)
- 1995: John J. Wise ( Mobile )
- 1996: Robert A. Frosch (General Motors)
- 1997: Donald E. Elson ( Black & Decker )
- 1998: Arno Penzias (Bell Labs / Lucent)
- 1999: John Seely Brown (Xerox)
- 2000: Gordon F. Brunner ( Procter & Gamble )
- 2001: Philip Needleman ( Pharmacia )
- 2002: Charles W. Deneka (Corning)
- 2003: Lewis S. Edelheit (General Electric)
- 2004: John W. Miley ( Milliken & Company )
- 2005: Paul M. Horn (IBM)
- 2006: David O. Swain ( Boeing )
- 2007: Nabil Y. Sakkab (Procter & Gamble)
- 2008: Ralph Snyderman ( Duke University & Proventys, Inc.)
- 2009: Norman R. Augustine ( Lockheed Martin )
- 2010: Nicholas M. Donofrio (IBM)
- 2011: Uma Chowdhry (DuPont)
- 2012: Emile Jacobs (Exxon Mobile Research)
- 2013: Robert S. Langer , George M. Whitesides
- 2014: Joseph DeSimone
- 2015: Subra Suresh
- 2016: Vinton G. Cerf ( Google LLC ), Peter H. Diamandis
- 2017: Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley)
- 2018: Yann LeCun ( Facebook Inc. )
- 2019: Leroy Hood
Web links
- Website for the IRI Medal (with award winners since 1946)
- ↑ "The 2019 IRI Medal" - Research-Technology Management, Vol. 62, Issue 6, November-December 2019 - Online Research Library: Questia. In: questia.com. November 2019, accessed on February 5, 2020 .