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Year
2007
Subject
Materials Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For outstanding contributions to understanding the fundamental and technological aspects of the solidification of metallic alloys, including research leading to the development of a new industry known as semi-solid metalworking.
Year
2014
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Columbia University |
New York, New York
Citation
For the development of Cryo-Electron Microscopy, for using this technology to investigate the structure of large organic molecules at high resolution, and for discoveries regarding the mechanism of protein synthesis in cells.
Year
2010
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Microsoft Corporation |
Redmond, Washington
Citation
For co-founding Microsoft Corporation and providing the visionary leadership that enabled it to become a global innovator in business and personal computing. Through his philanthropic work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Gates has made major contributions toward improving access to healthcare and education for those in need throughout the world.
Year
2014
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Harvard Business School |
Boston, Massachusetts
Citation
For his visionary leadership of Medtronic Corporation, his promotion and writings on corporate social responsibility and leadership, as well as his extraordinary philanthropic contributions to education and health care through The George Family Foundation.
Year
1988
Subject
Engineering
Award
Brown
Affiliation
University of California at Berkeley
Citation
For the development of prestressed concrete pilings.
Year
2010
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Weizmann Institute of Science |
Rehovot, Israel
Citation
For her fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundation of modern cryptography, which led to techniques that can guarantee secure access to the Internet.
Year
2016
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Southern California │ Los Angeles, California
Citation
For pioneering work in space communications and the design of digital spread spectrum signals, transmissions that provide security, interference suppression, and precise location for cryptography; missile guidance; defense, space, and cellular communications; radar; sonar; and GPS.
Year
2018
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Texas at Austin│ Austin, Texas
Citation
For his development of the first practical, rechargeable lithium-ion battery cathode material, lithium cobalt oxide, which has revolutionized lightweight, portable electric power.
Year
2000
Subject
Earth Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN
Citation
For seminal contributions in understanding the ways plants interact with their environment, and the use of this knowledge to measure the source of the contents of air, and the effects of air contents on plants and the environment in general.
Year
2009
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | New Brunswick, New Jersey
Citation
For pioneering research leading to our understanding of the unique ecosystems near volcanic vents at the sea floor, the first ever found fueled by chemical energy from the Earth's interior instead of sunlight.
Year
2000
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | Pasadena, CA
Citation
For his wide ranging seminal contributions to greatly advance and expand the field of olefin metathesis, a unique carbon-carbon bond breaking/making process, that has enormously added to the chemist's capabilities at making a broad range of drugs and other useful complex molecules, improved rubbers, and plastics for laboratory and commercial applications.
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.