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Year
2022
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Caltech │ Pasadena, California
Citation
For leading NASA’s Voyager program in its exploration of the environments of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and for his vision to continue the mission on a 40-year journey beyond our solar system to transmit back information from interstellar space.
Year
1998
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Bell Labs | New Providence, New Jersey
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
2010
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For uncovering the intricate processes by which cells safely use free radicals, for developing new cancer treatments, and for improving the production of environmentally-friendly biodegradable polymers.
Year
2024
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
AMD | Austin, Texas
Citation
For her transformational leadership of AMD, a leader in high-performance and adaptive computing and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world. As an accomplished engineer and champion for diversity and women in tech, Dr. Su’s bold vision to deliver the next generation of computing and AI solutions has led to AMD becoming one of the industry’s most influential companies.
Year
2002
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Cartmel College at Lancaster University | United Kingdom
Citation
For her fundamental contributions to ethnographic analysis, conversational analysis and Participatory Design techniques for the development of interactive computer systems. Her techniques for system development have created a paradigm change in the way interactive systems are designed.
Year
2012
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | Garching, Germany │ Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences │ Moscow, Russia
Citation
For his monumental contributions to understanding the early universe and the properties of black holes.
Year
2013
Subject
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Carnegie Mellon University
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mechanical behavior of materials in applications ranging from large structures down to the atomic level. This research also showed how deformation of biological cells can be linked to human disease.
Year
1959
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Wetherill
Affiliation
University of East Anglia │ Norwich, United Kingdom
Citation
For the development of theories of gas chromatography for the quick and precise analysis of minute quantities of mixtures of chemical components (with A. T. James and Archer J. P. Martin).
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.