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Year
2012
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Madison, Wisconsin
Citation
For proposing and demonstrating that the diversity and multiplicity of animal life is largely due to the different ways that the same genes are regulated rather than to mutation of the genes themselves.
Year
2018
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Google Inc.│ Reston, Virginia
Citation
With Robert E. Kahn, for enabling the Internet by developing TCP/IP, the set of methods that allows effective communication between millions of computer networks.
Year
2012
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Cisco Systems, Inc. |
San Jose, California
Citation
For shaping Cisco Systems, Inc. into one of the world's most widely respected and successful technology companies, providing business and consumer technologies that allow millions of people to connect to each other through computer networking and the Internet, and for his leadership by example in corporate responsibility and personal philanthropy.
Year
2016
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, San Diego │ La Jolla California
Citation
For contributions to the understanding of the physics of blood flow and for applying this knowledge to better diagnose cardiovascular disease.
Year
2002
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Research Triangle Park | North Carolina
Citation
For her key discoveries and wide-ranging contributions in the development of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid as a major vector system for plant genetic engineering.
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.
Year
2011
Subject
Life Science
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
Harvard Medical School |
Personal Genomes.org |
Boston, Massachusetts
Citation
For innovative and creative contributions to genomic science, including the development of DNA sequencing technologies, as well as for his subsequent efforts to promote personal genomics and synthetic biology.
Year
2010
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics |
Garching, Germany
Citation
With David Wineland and Peter Zoller, for their theoretical proposal and experimental realization of the first device that performs elementary computer-logic operations using the quantum properties of individual atoms.
Year
2014
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
Carnegie Mellon University |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Citation
For his leading role in the conception and development of techniques for automatically verifying the correctness of a broad array of computer systems, including those found in transportation, communications, and medicine.
Year
2006
Subject
Civil Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California
Citation
For revolutionizing engineering and scientific computation and engineering design methods through his formulation and development of the finite element method, and for his innovative leadership in applying the method to the field of earthquake engineering with special emphasis on the seismic performance of dams.
Year
2000
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights | Yorktown Heights, New York
Citation
For the development of reduced instruction set computing (RISC), which has led to a revolution in computer architecture.
Year
2017
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory │Berkeley, California
Citation
For making possible atomic-scale calculations of the properties of materials so detailed that new materials and their mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties can be predicted in agreement with experiments.
Year
1994
Subject
Physics
Award
Wetherill
Affiliation
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation
For fundamental contributions to understanding of stellar collapse and supernova explosions.
Year
2000
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, Colorado
Citation
With Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, for their epoch-making experimental confirmation of the 1925 prediction by Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein, who claimed on theoretical grounds that a dilute gas can condense into a large quantum-mechanical system and display properties that are usually found only on an atomic or molecular scale.
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.