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Noam
Chomsky
Year
1999
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For his contributions to the world of linguistics and their effects on computer science, and insight into human thought processes.
Douglas C.
Engelbart
Year
1999
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
The Bootstrap Institute | Freemont, CA
Citation
For his outstanding contributions in computer hardware and software that revolutionized human-computer interactions.
Walter
Kaminsky
Year
1999
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany
Citation
For discoveries relating to the practical application of metallocene catalysis in the formation of polyolefin polymers.
Barry J.
Marshall
Year
1999
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Virginia Medical School | Charlottesville, Virginia
Citation
For his work in identifying the role of the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, and providing understanding and hope in the realm of ulcergenesis.
John C.
Mather
Year
1999
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland
Citation
For his vision and management of experiments confirming the radiation spectrum remnant from the Big Bang.
Richard W.
Shorthill
Year
1999
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah
Citation
For pioneering work in the field of fiber optics
Akira
Tonomura
Year
1999
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Advanced Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. | Tokyo, Japan
Citation
For the development of high brightness field-emission electron beam and high resolution electron holography interference microscope and the definitive verification of the Aharovov-Bohm effect of the vector potential on the phase of electron waves.
Victor
Vali
Year
1999
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal



Notes:

  • "Franklin" Medals are not the same as "Benjamin Franklin" Medals. The Benjamin Franklin Medal was initiated in 1998 to represent the combined legacies of several historic medals, including the Franklin Medal.
  • The Scott Medal is awarded by the City of Philadelphia. Prior to 1920, the Institute's Committee on Science and the Arts selected the medalists and the Scott Medals were presented on Awards Day at The Franklin Institute.
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