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Year
2013
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Harvard University |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For his many fundamental contributions to the development of the field of molecular astrophysics, which led to a better understanding of interstellar space, including the giant molecular clouds that are the birthplaces of stars and planets.
Year
2004
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
FONAR Corporation | Melville, New York
Citation
For his development and commercialization of magnetic resonance imaging used in clinical applications, which has transformed the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Year
2000
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Danby Powell Maglev Technology Corporation
Citation
With James Powell, for the invention of a novel repulsive magnetically-levitated train system using superconducting magnets and subsequent work in the field.
Year
2006
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Columbia University | New York, New York
Citation
For his achievements in synthetic organic chemistry, particularly for the development of methods for preparing complex substances found in nature, and their emerging applications in the field of cancer treatment.
Year
2011
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Duke University |
Durham, North Carolina
Citation
For fundamental discoveries in the field of compact representations of data, leading to efficient image compression as used in digital photography.
Year
1995
Subject
Life Science
Award
Corson
Affiliation
Bone Metabolism Laboratory; Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Citation
For research into osteoporosis.
Year
2013
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Dell Inc. |
Round Rock, Texas
Citation
For revolutionizing the accessibility of personal computing by his founding and leadership of Dell Inc. and for his extraordinary philanthropy, through both his company and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, towards benefitting the lives of youth and families in the United States and abroad.
Year
2007
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
IBM Research Division | Yorktown Heights, New York
Citation
For inventing computer memory circuits called DRAMs that are small, inexpensive, and fast enough to permit powerful, affordable personal computers, and for contributing to the development of the mathematical formula used in shrinking circuits to allow more speed and complexity.
Year
1998
Subject
Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Alcatel Alsthom Research Center | Marcoussis, France
Citation
With David Payne, for fundamental technical contributions and leadership critical to the successful development of the Erbuim-Doped Fiber Amplifier and for the championship of this project.
Year
1998
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Meade Instruments Corporation | Irvine, California
Citation
For his courage and insight, and leadership of a commercial venture founded on the premise of making astronomy accessible and affordable to the public.
Year
2017
Subject
Materials Science and Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology │ Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For her fundamental contributions to the understanding and exploitation of carbon nanomaterials, such as the spheres known as buckminsterfullerenes, the cylindrical pipes called nanotubes, and the single-atom-thick sheets of carbon known as graphene, and for launching the field of low-dimensional thermoelectricity, the direct conversion of heat to electricity.
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.
Year
2008
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich │Zürich, Switzerland
│ The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology │The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
Citation
For seminal investigations into the origin of nucleic acid structure, which through systematic chemical synthesis have begun to answer the fundamentally important question of why DNA and RNA have the structures they do.
Year
2009
Subject
Physics
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory | University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, California
Citation
For extraordinary advances in our knowledge of the properties of distant galaxies, dark matter, large scale structure of the Universe, and black holes in galactic nuclei; and for innovative leadership in the development of astronomical facilities.
Year
1993
Subject
Life Science
Award
Corson
Affiliation
Central University of Ecuador
Citation
For documenting the effect of iodine deficiency in populations.
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.