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Year
1977
Subject
Engineering
Award
Longstreth
Year
1912
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1904
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Longstreth
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
1918
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1988
Subject
Engineering
Award
Cresson
Affiliation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citation
For clarification of the role of pressure in producing paramagnetic-ferromagnetic and conductor-insulator transitions.
Year
1877
Subject
Engineering
Award
Cresson
Year
1903
Subject
Invention
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1894
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1898
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1902
Subject
Engineering
Award
Certificate of Merit
Year
2022
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Georgia Institute of Technology │ Atlanta, Georgia
Citation
With P. Daniel Dapkus, for pioneering the technology that provides the materials quality and ultra-precision required for many device components central to modern life, including LEDs, transistors, lasers, and high-performance solar cells.



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.