In 1998, the Benjamin Franklin Medals were created by reorganizing all of the endowed medals presented by The Franklin Institute at that time into a group of medals recognizing seven areas of study: Chemistry, Computer and Cognitive Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Electrical Engineering, Life Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. The first Benjamin Franklin Medals were presented in 1998.[2]
Medalists are selected by a Committee on Science and the Arts (CS&A), composed of local academics and professionals from the Philadelphia area.[7]
The Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science and the Bower Award for Business Leadership are the newest awards, established by a $7.5 million bequest from Henry Bower in 1988.[2] The annual Bower Prizes are US$250,000 each.
The following table lists laureates of the Benjamin Franklin Medal (including the Bower Prizewinners), from 1998 onwards.[8]
Year Name Field 1998 John Diebel Bower Award for Business Leadership 1998 Emmanuel Desurvire Engineering 1998 Robert B. Laughlin Physics 1998 David N. Payne Engineering 1998 Stanley B. Prusiner Life Science 1998 Martin J. Rees Physics, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 1998 Horst L. Stormer Physics 1998 Daniel C. Tsui Physics 1998 Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry 1999 Ralph J. Cicerone Earth Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 1999 Noam Chomsky Computer and Cognitive Science 1999 Douglas C. Engelbart Computer and Cognitive Science 1999 Walter Kaminsky Chemistry 1999 Barry J. Marshall Life Science 1999 John C. Mather Physics 1999 Richard W. Shorthill Computer and Cognitive Science 1999 Akira Tonomura Physics 1999 P. Roy Vagelos Bower Award for Business Leadership 1999 Victor Vali Computer and Cognitive Science 2000 John Cocke Computer and Cognitive Science 2000 Eric Cornell Physics 2000 Gordon Danby Mechanical Engineering 2000 Eville Gorham Earth Science 2000 Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2000 Wolfgang Ketterle Physics 2000 Antoine Labeyrie Electrical Engineering 2000 James R. Powell Mechanical Engineering 2000 Alexander Rich Life Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2000 William J. Rutter Life Science, Bower Award for Business Leadership 2000 Carl Wieman Physics 2001 Paul Baran Electrical Engineering, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2001 Judah Folkman Life Science 2001 Alan H. Guth Physics 2001 Irwin Mark Jacobs Bower Award for Business Leadership 2001 Marvin Minsky Computer and Cognitive Science 2001 K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2001 Rob Van der Voo Earth Science 2001 Bernard Widrow Electrical Engineering 2002 Norman L. Allinger Chemistry 2002 John W. Cahn Materials Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2002 Mary-Dell Chilton Life Science 2002 Sumio Iijima Physics 2002 Gordon E. Moore Bower Award for Business Leadership 2002 Shuji Nakamura Engineering 2002 Alexandra Navrotsky Earth Science 2002 Lucy Suchman Computer and Cognitive Science 2003 Bishnu S. Atal Electrical Engineering 2003 John N. Bahcall Physics 2003 Raymond Davis Jr. Physics 2003 Jane Goodall Life Science 2003 Robin M. Hochstrasser Chemistry 2003 Masatoshi Koshiba Physics 2003 Paul B. MacCready Engineering, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2003 John McCarthy Computer and Cognitive Science 2003 Norman A. Phillips Earth Science 2003 Joseph Smagorinsky Earth Science 2003 Charles H. Thornton Engineering 2004 Roger Bacon Mechanical Engineering 2004 Seymour Benzer Life Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2004 Raymond V. Damadian Bower Award for Business Leadership 2004 Harry B. Gray Chemistry 2004 Richard M. Karp Computer and Cognitive Science 2004 Robert B. Meyer Physics 2004 Robert E. Newnham Electrical Engineering 2005 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn Life Science 2005 Aravind K. Joshi Computer and Cognitive Science 2005 Henri B. Kagan Chemistry, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2005 Yoichiro Nambu Physics 2005 Peter R. Vail Earth Science 2005 Andrew J. Viterbi Electrical Engineering 2005 Alejandro Zaffaroni Bower Award for Business Leadership 2006 Ray W. Clough Engineering 2006 Samuel J. Danishefsky Chemistry 2006 Narain G. Hingorani Electrical Engineering, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2006 Luna B. Leopold Earth Science 2006 Donald Norman Computer and Cognitive Science 2006 Fernando Nottebohm Life Science 2006 Giacinto Scoles Physics 2006 J. Peter Toennies Physics 2006 R.E. Turner Bower Award for Business Leadership 2006 M. Gordon Wolman Earth Science 2007 Norman R. Augustine Bower Award for Business Leadership 2007 Klaus Biemann Chemistry 2007 Stuart K. Card Computer and Cognitive Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2007 Robert H. Dennard Electrical Engineering 2007 Merton C. Flemings Materials Science 2007 Arthur B. McDonald Physics 2007 Steven W. Squyres Earth Science 2007 Yoji Totsuka Physics 2007 Nancy Wexler Life Science 2008 Victor Ambros Life Science 2008 David Baulcombe Life Science 2008 Wallace Broecker Earth Science 2008 Albert Eschenmoser Chemistry 2008 Deborah Jin Physics 2008 Takeo Kanade Computer and Cognitive Science, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2008 Judea Pearl Computer and Cognitive Science 2008 Arun Phadke Electrical Engineering 2008 Gary Ruvkun Life Science 2008 Frederick Smith Bower Award for Business Leadership 2008 James Thorp Electrical Engineering 2009 Ruzena Bajcsy Computer and Cognitive Science 2009 Stephen J. Benkovic Life Science 2009 Sandra M. Faber Physics, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 2009 J. Frederick Grassle Earth Science 2009 T. Boone Pickens Bower Award for Business Leadership 2009 Richard J. Robbins Engineering 2009 George M. Whitesides Chemistry 2009 Lotfi A. Zadeh Electrical Engineering 2010 J. Ignacio Cirac Physics 2010 Shafrira Goldwasser Computer and Cognitive Science 2010 Peter C. Nowell Life Science 2010 Gerhard M. Sessler Electrical Engineering 2010 D. Brian Spalding Mechanical Engineering 2010 JoAnne Stubbe Chemistry 2010 James West Electrical Engineering 2010 David J. Wineland Physics 2010 Peter Zoller Physics 2010 W. Richard Peltier Earth and Environmental Science, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2010 William H. Gates Bower Award for Business Leadership 2011 John Robert Anderson Computer and Cognitive Science 2011 Jillian F. Banfield Earth and Environmental Science 2011 Nicola Cabibbo Physics 2011 Ingrid Daubechies Electrical Engineering 2011 Dean Kamen Mechanical Engineering 2011 K.C. Nicolaou Chemistry 2011 George Church Life Science, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2011 Fred Kavli Bower Award for Business Leadership 2012 Vladimir Vapnik Computer and Cognitive Science 2012 Lonnie Thompson Earth and Environmental Science 2012 Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson Earth and Environmental Science 2012 Sean B. Carroll Life Science 2012 Jerry Nelson Electrical Engineering 2012 Rashid Sunyaev Physics 2012 Zvi Hashin Mechanical Engineering 2012 Louis E. Brus Chemistry, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2012 John Chambers Bower Award for Business Leadership 2013 Jerrold Meinwald Chemistry 2013 William Labov Computer and Cognitive Science 2013 Robert A. Berner Earth and Environmental Science 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch Life Science 2013 Subra Suresh Mechanical Engineering 2013 Alexander Dalgarno Physics 2013 Michael S. Dell Bower Award for Business Leadership 2013 Kenichi Iga Electrical Engineering, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2014 Daniel Kleppner Physics 2014 Christopher T. Walsh Chemistry 2014 Lisa Tauxe Earth and Environmental Science 2014 Shunichi Iwasaki Electrical Engineering 2014 Mark H. Kryder Electrical Engineering 2014 Joachim Frank Life Science 2014 Ali H. Nayfeh Mechanical Engineering 2014 Edmund M. Clarke Computer and Cognitive Science, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2014 William W. George Bower Award for Business Leadership 2015 Stephen Lippard[11] Chemistry 2015 Elissa Newport[12] Computer and Cognitive Science 2015 Syukuro Manabe Earth and Environmental Science[13] 2015 Roger F. Harrington Electrical Engineering[14] 2015 Cornelia Bargmann Life Science[15] 2015 Charles L. Kane[16] Physics 2015 Eugene Mele[17] Physics 2015 Shoucheng Zhang[18] Physics 2015 Jon Huntsman, Sr.[19] Bower Award for Business Leadership 2015 Jean-Pierre Kruth[20] Mechanical Engineering, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2016 Nadrian C. Seeman Chemistry 2016 Yale N. Patt Computer and Cognitive Science 2016 Brian F. Atwater Earth and Environmental Science 2016 Solomon W. Golomb Electrical Engineering 2016 Robert S. Langer Life Science 2016 Shu Chien Mechanical Engineering 2016 Patrick Soon-Shiong Bower Award for Business Leadership 2016 William J. Borucki Physics, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2017 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Chemistry 2017 Mitsuo Sawamoto Chemistry 2017 Michael I. Posner Computer and Cognitive Science 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Electrical Engineering 2017 Douglas C. Wallace Life Science 2017 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Materials Science and Engineering 2017 Marvin L. Cohen Physics 2017 Claude Lorius Earth and Environmental Science, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2017 Alan Mulally Bower Award for Business Leadership 2018 Susan Trumbore Earth and Environmental Science 2018 Manijeh Razeghi Electrical Engineering 2018 Adrian Bejan Mechanical Engineering 2018 Helen Rhoda Quinn Physics 2018 John B. Goodenough Chemistry 2018 Vinton Gray Cerf Computer and Cognitive Science 2018 Robert E. Kahn Computer and Cognitive Science 2018 Philippe Horvath Life Science, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2018 Anne M. Mulcahy Bower Award for Business Leadership 2019 John J. Hopfield Physics 2019 John A. Rogers Materials Engineering 2019 James P. Allison Life Science 2019 Eli Yablonovitch Electrical Engineering 2019 Gene E. Likens Earth and Environmental Science 2019 Marcia K. Johnson Computer and Cognitive Science 2019 Frances H. Arnold Chemistry, Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2019 Indra K. Nooyi Bower Award for Business Leadership 2021 Roberto Car Chemistry 2021 Michele Parrinello Chemistry 2021 Henry C. Kapteyn Physics 2021 Margaret Murnane Physics 2021 Jeremy Nathans Life Science 2021 C. Daniel Mote Mechanical Engineering 2021 Monica Turner Earth and Environmental Science 2021 Barbara Partee Computer and Cognitive Science 2021 Kunihiko Fukushima Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2021 Arthur D. Levinson Bower Award for Business Leadership 2022 Sallie W. Chisholm Earth and Environmental Science 2022 Sheldon Weinbaum Biomedical Engineering 2022 Carol V. Robinson Chemistry 2022 Russell D. Dupuis Electrical Engineering 2022 P. Daniel Dapkus Electrical Engineering 2022 Katalin Karikó Life Science 2022 Drew Weissman Life Science 2022 Edward C. Stone Physics 2023 R. Lawrence Edwards Earth and Environmental Science 2023 Nader Engheta Electrical Engineering 2023 Kenneth C. Frazier Bower Award for Business Leadership 2023 Elaine Fuchs Life Science 2023 Philip Kim Physics 2023 Barbara H. Liskov Computer and Cognitive Science 2023 Deb Niemeier Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Bower Award for Achievement in Science 2023 Monika Schleier-Smith Physics 2023 Richard Zare ChemistryRetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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