Millennium Technology Prize
The Millennium Technology Prize is an international innovation award that has been awarded every two years by the Finnish Millennium Prize Foundation since 2004.
The award is given "for a technological innovation that significantly improves the quality of life and people's wellbeing". It is established and financed by Finnish organizations, Finnish industry and the Finnish state. It is endowed with 1.1 million euros, with the main prize accounting for 800,000 euros.
Prize Winner (Main Prize)
- 2004 Tim Berners-Lee for his invention of the World Wide Web
- 2006 Shuji Nakamura for his inventions of blue, green and white light emitting diodes and blue laser diodes
- 2008 Robert Langer for his discovery and further development of biomaterials and drugs, a. a. to fight cancer
- 2010 Michael Graetzel for his work on the development of the dye solar cell
- 2012 Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux operating system kernel and Shin'ya Yamanaka for his stem cell research
- 2014 Stuart Parkin for developing extremely high capacity storage media
- 2016 Frances H. Arnold for her research on Directed Evolution
- 2018 Tuomo Suntola for his invention of atomic layer deposition
Other award winners
- 2008 Alec John Jeffreys : Genetic Fingerprint
- 2008 Andrew J. Viterbi : Viterbi Algorithm
- 2008 Emmanuel Desurvire , Randy Giles and David N. Payne : Optical Amplifier
- 2010 Richard Henry Friend : Organic Electronics
- 2010 Steve Furber : ARM architecture