Lemelson-MIT Prize
The Lemelson-MIT Prize, endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, and administered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is awarded to inventors from the United States for outstanding achievement. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest invention prize.
List of winners
2005
- Elwood "Woody" Norris (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
2004
- Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Edith Flanigen (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Saul Griffith (Student Prize)
- N/A (Invention Apprentice)
2003
- Leroy Hood (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- William Murphy, Jr (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- James McLurkin (Student Prize)
- N/A (Invention Apprentice)
2002
- Dean Kamen (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Ruth R. Benerito (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Andrew Heafitz (Student Prize)
- Kavita Shukla (Invention Apprentice)
2001
- Raymond Kurzweil (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Raymond Damadian (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Brian Hubert (Student Prize)
- Jordan Sand (Invention Apprentice)
2000
- Thomas Fogarty (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Al Gross (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Amy Smith (Student Prize)
- Charles Johnson (Invention Apprentice)
- Michael Lim, Jalal Khan, and Thomas Murphy received a one-time student team prize
1999
- Carver Mead (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Stephanie Kwolek (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Daniel DiLorenzo (Student Prize)
- Krysta Morlan (Invention Apprentice)
1998
- Robert Langer (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Jacob Rabinow (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Akhil Madhani (Student Prize)
1997
- Douglas Engelbart (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Gertrude Elion (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Nathan Kane (Student Prize)
1996
- Stanley Cohen (Co-recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- Wilson Greatbatch (Lifetime Achievement Award)
- David Levy (Student Prize)
1995
- William Bolander (Lemelson-MIT Prize)
- William Hewlett (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award)
- David Packard (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Thomas Massie (Student Prize)