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Year
1986
Subject
Physics
Award
Potts
Affiliation
Rutgers University
Citation
For work on mathematical physics and early creation combinations of analysis and computation, and work in the properties of solitons.
Year
2009
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California
Citation
For his invention and development of the field of fuzzy logic, a mathematical system that captures aspects of the ambiguity of human language and thought, which has solved problems in areas such as artificial intelligence and the automated control of machines.
Year
2005
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Alexza MDC | Mountain View, California
Citation

For the creation, through a combination of scientific creativity and entrepreneurial insight and drive, of new biochemical processes, drug delivery technologies – most significantly, the birth control pill, transdermal patches, and once-a-day pills – and biomedical industries. He has leveraged his business successes so that he is broadly respected as a philanthropist and technical leader.

Year
1962
Subject
Engineering
Award
Longstreth
Year
1998
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California
Citation
For his application of ultrafast lasers to probe chemical reactions contributing to the formation of a new field of research called "femtochemistry."
Year
2015
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Stanford University │ Stanford, California
Citation
With Charles Kane and Eugene Mele, for their groundbreaking theoretical contributions leading to the discovery of a new class of materials called topological insulators, and for their prediction of specific compounds exhibiting the novel properties expected of these new materials.
Year
1888
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
2010
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Innsbruck, Austria
Citation
With J. Ignacio Cirac and David Wineland, for their theoretical proposal and experimental realization of the first device that performs elementary computer-logic operations using the quantum properties of individual atoms.



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.
  • For more information about The Franklin Institute Awards program, contact the Awards Program Director at awards@fi.edu.