Lemelson-MIT Prize

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The Lemelson-MIT Prize ( English Lemelson-MIT Prize ) is the most highly endowed US award for technical innovations. It is awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Lemelson Foundation of the philanthropist and inventor Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997).

It is endowed with $ 500,000. There were also various other prizes from the Lemelson-MIT Foundation: until 2006 the Lifetime Achievement Award , which was replaced by the Sustainability Award ("Prize for Sustainability"), which was later renamed the Global Innovation Award and was last awarded in 2013 ( the prizes were endowed with $ 100,000). There is also a student award that is endowed with $ 10,000 to $ 15,000.

Laureate of the Lemelson-MIT Prize

  • 1995 William Bolander , development of mathematical models for computer control in cars (at General Motors), especially a system for traction control and a limp home system (emergency driving system)
  • 1996 Stanley Norman Cohen , Herbert Boyer for a fundamental invention of genetic engineering (incorporation of genes into plasmids of bacteria)
  • 1997 Douglas Engelbart for the invention of the computer mouse
  • 1998 Robert Langer for research on polymers that led to drugs in microcapsules that slowly release the dose
  • 1999 Carver Mead for revolutionizing the semiconductor industry with VLSI technology
  • 2000 Thomas Fogarty for inventions for vascular surgery, especially his balloon catheter, patented in 1963
  • 2001 Raymond Kurzweil for the first reading machine for the blind
  • 2002 Dean came for IBOT (a battery powered wheelchair that can climb stairs) and the Segway
  • 2003 Leroy Hood for molecular biology equipment, especially a gene sequencer
  • 2004 Nick Holonyak for the invention of the first LED (light emitting diode)
  • 2005 Elwood Norris (Elwood "Woody" Norris) for the invention of ultrasound technology in medicine (Doppler method)
  • 2006 James Fergason for advanced liquid crystal technology for screens
  • 2007 Timothy Swager for the invention of a chemical sensor with molecular wires that can detect explosives from its vapors
  • 2008 Joseph DeSimone for the invention of PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates) for the production of nano-carriers in medicine
  • 2009 Chad Mirkin for Dip-Pen nanolithography and biodetection based on nanoparticles
  • 2010 Carolyn Bertozzi for inventing the first bioorthogonal chemical reaction that can be used to label biomolecules in living cells
  • 2011 John A. Rogers for bio-integrated electronics
  • 2012 Stephen Quake for a number of inventions in personalized medicine, drug discovery and non-invasive tests (prenatal diagnostics, etc.) in medicine, including microfluidic chips
  • 2013 Angela Belcher , for genetic engineering (reprogramming of virus DNA) in the production of new materials, especially biologically produced electronic materials
  • 2014 Sangeeta N. Bhatia for inventions in miniaturized medical technology, for example for the renewal of tissue (among other things for a kind of micro-liver), stem cell differentiation, diagnostics (with nanoparticles) and drug administration.
  • 2015 Jay Whitacre (Aquion Energy) for the first mass production of a cheap, eco-friendly battery
  • 2016 Ramesh Raskar for the development of Femto-Photography
  • 2017 Feng Zhang for developing CRISPR technology and optogenetics
  • 2018 Luis von Ahn for the invention of reCAPTCHA and CAPTCHA and the development of the free language learning platform Duolingo
  • 2019 Cody Friesen for his contributions to the use of renewable energies

Lifetime Achievement Award winner

  • 1995 William Reddington Hewlett , David Packard , the founders of Hewlett-Packard
  • 1996 Wilson Greatbatch (pacemaker batteries)
  • 1997 Gertrude Elion for drug development (Nobel Prize)
  • 1998 Jacob Rabinow for an automatic letter sorting machine for the US Post, automatic controls of clocks and a magnetic clutch (magnetic particle clutch)
  • 1999 Stephanie Kwolek , for Kevlar
  • 2000 Alfred J. Gross (Al Gross) as a pioneer of wireless communication (walkie-talkie, pager, cordless telephone)
  • 2001 Raymond Damadian for the first magnetic resonance (MR) scanner
  • 2002 Ruth R. Benerito for revolutionizing the cotton industry by inventing the first crease-free "Wash and Wear" clothing
  • 2003 William P. Murphy Jr. for inventions in medical technology such as significant improvements in early pacemakers, artificial kidneys, cardiac catheters, flexible blood containers and a simple transfusion system (first used in the Korean War). He also invented simple, single-use, disposable medical instruments that circumvented disinfection problems
  • 2004 Edith M. Flanigen for zeolites as molecular sieves
  • 2005 Robert Dennard , for DRAM
  • 2006 Sidney Pestka mainly as the "father" of interferon (pure representation, genetic engineering for production). He also developed high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) for the preparation of proteins.

Sustainability Award winner

  • 2007 Lee Lynd for advanced methods of converting biomass into fuel
  • 2008 Martin Fisher for developing inexpensive human-powered irrigation pumps for agriculture
  • 2009 Joel Selanikio for the development of EpiSurveyor (mobile software for health care workers)
  • 2010 BP Agrawal for the development of rainwater collection systems and mobile health care for farmers in India

Global Innovation Award winners

  • 2011 Elizabeth Hausler for developing a program of earthquake-proof homes in developing countries that can be built inexpensively by local residents
  • 2012 Ashok Gadgil for affordable devices for clean drinking water (with UV) for developing countries, the Darfur oven and the like. a.
  • 2013 Rebecca Richards-Kortum , Maria Oden for the development of cheap medical devices for developing countries

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