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Year
2022
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award
Affiliation
Duke University Medical Center │ Durham, North Carolina
Citation
For studies investigating how stress and other environmental factors affect the brain through genetic and electrochemical mechanisms, which led to important insights into cognitive and emotional function and depressive disorders.
Year
1884
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
1889
Subject
Engineering
Award
Scott - on behalf of the City of Philadelphia
Year
2023
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Citation
For fundamental advances in high-precision methods for dating geologic records of climate change, leading to a more detailed understanding of the earth’s climate system over the past million years.
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.