Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a British award for engineering excellence . The prize has been awarded every two years since 2013 and is endowed with one million British pounds . The award is given to engineers who are responsible for a development “from which humanity worldwide benefits”.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | excellent development |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Robert E. Kahn , Vinton Cerf, and Louis Pouzin | Internet protocols |
| Tim Berners-Lee | World wide web | |
| Marc Andreessen | Mosaic web browser | |
| 2015 | Robert Langer | Polymers that regulate the release of high molecular weight drugs |
| 2017 | Eric Fossum , George Elwood Smith , Nobukazu Teranishi , Michael Tompsett | digital image sensors such as active pixel sensors and charge-coupled devices |
| 2019 | Bradford Parkinson , James Spilker , Hugo Fruehauf , Richard Schwartz | Global Positioning System (GPS) |