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Year
2015
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Syracuse University │ Syracuse, New York
Citation
For pioneering an electromagnetic modeling method for accurate simulation, design, and optimization of radio wave antennas and devices, enabling advances in communications, radar imaging, and target recognition.
Year
2012
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Tel Aviv University |
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation
For groundbreaking contributions to the accurate analysis of composite materials, which have enabled practical engineering designs of lightweight composite structures, commonly used today in aerospace, marine, automotive, and civil infrastructure.
Year
2006
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
Los Altos Hills, California
Citation
For the conceptualization and pioneering advancement of the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) and Custom Power in electric power systems, and for outstanding technical contributions in High Voltage Direct Current Technology, which have enhanced the quality and security of the electric power system.
Year
2003
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citation
For pioneering the development of ultrafast and multi-dimensional spectroscopies, and their applications to gain fundamental molecular-level understanding of the dynamics in complex systems (condensed phases and biomolecules), including energy transfer in solids, reaction mechanisms in liquid solutions, the binding of small molecules on hemoglobin, and the observation of structural changes in proteins.
Year
2017
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign │ Urbana, Illinois
Citation
For the development of the first visible (red) laser and LED used in displays and lighting, and the use of various alloys in colored light sources, which led to reduced energy consumption worldwide and contributed to the realization of optical data communications as the backbone of the Internet.
Year
2019
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study│ Princeton, New Jersey
Citation
For applying concepts of theoretical physics to provide new insights on important biological questions in a variety of areas, including neuroscience and genetics, with significant impact on machine learning, an area of computer science.
Year
2018
Subject
Life Science
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
DuPont Nutrition & Health │ Dangé-Saint-Romain, France
Citation
For the foundational discovery of the role of CRISPR-Cas as a microbial system of adaptive immunity that has been developed as a powerful tool for precise editing of diverse genomes.
Year
1994
Subject
Life Science
Award
Corson
Affiliation
Georgetown University Hospital
Citation
For showing the interconnections of diet, obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease.
Year
2015
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Huntsman Corporation │ Salt Lake City, Utah
Citation
For his innovative leadership in founding the Huntsman Corporation and building it into one of the world's preeminent chemical companies; and for his global leadership in philanthropy, with a special focus on cancer research and treatment in support of some of the highest-impact developments towards curing cancer.
Year
2013
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Tokyo, Japan
Citation
For the conception and development of the vertical cavity surface emitting laser and its multiple applications to optoelectronics.
Year
2002
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Meijo University | Nagoya, Japan
Citation
For the discovery and elucidation of the atomic structure and helical character of multi-wall and single-wall carbon nanotubes, which have had an enormous impact on the rapidly growing condensed matter and materials science field of nanoscale science and electronics.
Year
2001
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Qualcomm Incorporated | San Diego, California
Citation
CDMA technology; business & scientific leadership in telephony
Year
2013
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For discovering heritable controls of gene expression that are independent of the DNA sequence information. These mechanisms affect normal development and diseases, such as cancer, and suggest promising new therapies.
Year
2008
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, Colorado
Citation
For her pioneering investigations of the quantum properties of an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms, atoms that cannot occupy the same quantum state, and in particular for the creation of the first quantized gas of fermionic atoms.
Year
2019
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Yale University │ New Haven, Connecticut
Citation
For developing innovative models of human memory with applications in psychology, brain science, human development, and our understanding of the malleability of memory in real-world settings.
Year
2005
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citation
For his fundamental contributions to our understanding of how language is represented in the mind, and for developing techniques that enable computers to process efficiently the wide range of human languages. These advances have led to new methods for computer translation.
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.