Lemelson–MIT Prize

The Lemelson-MIT Program awards several prizes yearly to inventors in the United States. The largest is the Lemelson–MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, funded by the Lemelson Foundation, and is administered through the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S.

The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation (previously named the Award for Sustainability) was last awarded in 2013. The Award for Global Innovation replaced the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded from 1995-2006. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognized outstanding individuals whose pioneering spirit and inventiveness throughout their careers improved society and inspired others.

The Lemelson-MIT Program also awards invention prizes for college students, called the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.

List of winners

Source: Lemelson-MIT

2019
  • Cody Friesen (Lemelson–MIT Prize)[1]
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Stephen Quake

(Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Professor of Biophysics and Genomics at Stanford University)

2011
John A. Rogers

(Professor, Physical Chemist, and Materials Scientist at Northwestern University)

2010
Carolyn Bertozzi, receiving the Emanuel Merck Lectureship in 2011
  • Carolyn Bertozzi (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • BP Agrawal (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2009
Chad Mirkin

George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University

CEO and co-Founder, Magpi, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital

Joel Selanikio
2008
  • Joseph DeSimone (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • Martin Fisher (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2007
  • Timothy M. Swager (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • Lee Lynd (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2006
  • James Fergason (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his liquid crystal display innovations.
  • Sidney Pestka (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
Sidney Pestka (middle) receives the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush (right)
2005
2004

(John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Nick Holonyak Jr.,
2003
  • Leroy Hood (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.
  • William P. Murphy Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2002
President Clinton and Dean Kamen in the White House, Kamen riding the iBOT Mobility System
  • Dean Kamen (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
  • Ruth R. Benerito (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2001
Ray Kurzweil

(Author, Computer scientist, Inventor and Futurist at Google)

  • Raymond Damadian (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
2000
  • Thomas Fogarty (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • Al Gross (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.
1999
  • Carver Mead (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • Stephanie Kwolek (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the armored fabric Kevlar.
1998
Bob Langer

(David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Jacob Rabinow (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the first disc-shaped magnetic storage media for computers, the magnetic particle clutch, the first straight-line phonograph, the first self-regulating clock, and a "reading machine" which was the first to use the "best match" principle.
1997
Douglas Engelbart
1996
  • Stanley Norman Cohen (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
  • Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
  • Wilson Greatbatch (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.
1995
  • William Bolander (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
  • William Hewlett (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • David Packard (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

See also

References
  1. "Award Winners". Lemelson-MIT. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. "Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. Pokharel, Krishna. "India-Born MIT Scientist Wins a $500,000 Prize for Invention". WSJ. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
  4. "Inventor Creates First Mass-Produced Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Battery; Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize". Lemelson-MIT Program. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. Rob Matheson, Angela Belcher wins $500,000 Lemelson–MIT Prize, MIT News, June 4th, 2013.
  6. "Stanford professor wins $500G MIT invention prize". Fox News. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
  7. Joel Selanikio LinkedIn profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelselanikio
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