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Year
2006
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Gottingen | Gottingen, Germany
Citation
With Giacinto Scoles, for the development of new techniques for studying molecules, including unstable species that could not be examined otherwise, by embedding them in extremely small and ultra-cold droplets of helium. Their work also led to a better understanding of the extraordinary properties of superfluid helium, such as its ability to flow without friction.
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.
Year
2007
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan
Citation
With Arthur McDonald, for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass.
Year
1962
Subject
Physics
Award
Ballantine
Citation
For theoretical work on MASER operation (with Arthur L. Schawlow).
Year
1998
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Princeton University | Princeton, NJ
Citation
To Tsui and Stormer for their experimental elucidation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, an extraordinary manifestation of the correlations in two-dimensional electronic systems, and to Laughlin for his creative theoretical formulation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which identified a completely new quantum state of the highly correlated two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic field.
Year
2006
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Philanthropist and Media Entrepreneur | Atlanta, Georgia
Citation
For his visionary leadership in the worlds of business and media, as well as his philanthropic commitment to the health of our planet and the well being of its people.
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.