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Year
2000
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Observatoire de Haute-Provence, Saint-Michel Observatoire | Saint-Michel Observatoire, France
Citation
For the invention of speckle interferometry which permits large ground-based astronomical telescopes to achieve their full theoretical angular resolution, and for pioneering work in extending Michelson's method for performing long-baseline multi-telescope interferometry to obtain angular resolutions on the order of 10-3 arc-seconds.
Year
2013
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citation
For establishing the cognitive basis of language variation and change through rigorous analysis of linguistic data, and for the study of non-standard dialects with significant social and cultural implications.
Year
2016
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology │ Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For his design and implementation of multiple innovative drug delivery systems, and for his founding work in the field of tissue engineering. As a serial entrepreneur, Dr. Langer established a new paradigm for translating academic ideas into practical products.
Year
2006
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California
Citation
With M. Gordon Wolman, for advancing our understanding of how natural and human activities influence landscapes, especially for the first comprehensive explanation of why rivers have different forms and how floodplains develop. Their contributions form the basis of modern water resource management and environmental assessment.
Year
2019
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies │ Millbrook, New York
University of Connecticut │ Storrs, Connecticut
Citation
For his pioneering long-term studies of forest, stream, and lake ecosystems, and for his efforts to educate the public and the U.S. government about acid rain and other environmental issues.
Year
1996
Subject
Life Science
Award
Corson
Citation
For showing the importance of vitamin B-12.
Year
2015
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology │ Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For his pioneering research on the role of metal atoms in biology and medicine, including the study of platinum anticancer drugs and of the structure and function of an enzyme that allows microbes to live on natural gas.
Year
1989
Subject
Physics
Award
Cresson
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation
For interpretation of dynamical chaos in physical systems.
Year
2017
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) │ Paris, France
Citation
For iconic contributions to the understanding of global climate change from the analysis of greenhouse gas concentrations in ice cores from Antarctica, including discovering the glacial-interglacial cyclic relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature that governs past and future climate.
Year
2003
Subject
Engineering
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
AeroVironment, Inc. | Monrovia, CA
Citation
For creating, in the spirit of the Wright Brothers, a series of innovations in the fields of soaring, meteorology, human and solar powered flight, upper atmospheric research, and unoccupied and miniature aircraft. For half a century, his exceptional contributions have expanded the frontiers of the science and technology of aeronautics, aeronautical materials, structures energy conservation and utilization, and autonomous and automatic flight.
Year
1993
Subject
Engineering
Award
Clamer
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
Citation
For the development of conductive polymers.
Year
2015
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University │ Princeton, New Jersey
Citation
For his pioneering research on the sensitivity of Earth’s climate to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and his development of global climate models, which have led to fundamental advances in the understanding of climate variability and to methods for predicting future climate change.
Year
1999
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Virginia Medical School | Charlottesville, Virginia
Citation
For his work in identifying the role of the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, and providing understanding and hope in the realm of ulcergenesis.
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.