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Ben Franklin Medals

The Franklin Institute annually awards the Benjamin Franklin Medals to those whose work reveals, “…uncommon insight, skill, or creativity, as well as its impact on future research or application to benefit the public.” 
Past winners include such notables as  Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre and Marie Curie, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Over 100 Ben Franklin Medalists have also won Nobel Prizes.
 

WINNERS

2010 W. Richard Peltier
Category: Achievement in Science
2010 JoAnne Stubbe
Category: Chemistry
2010 Gerhard M. Sessler
Category: Electrical Engineering
2010 Peter C. Nowell
Category: Life Science
2010 J. Ignacio Cirac
Category: Physics
2010 Peter Zoller
Category: Physics
2010 William H. Gates (Bill Gates)
Category: Business Leadership
2010 Shafrira Goldwasser
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2010 James E. West
Category: Electrical Engineering
2010 D. Brian Spalding
Category: Mechanical Engineering
2010 David J. Wineland
Category: Physics
2009 George M. Whitesides
Category: Chemistry
2009 Ruzena Bajcsy
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2009 J. Frederick Grassle
Category: Earth and Enviornmental Science
2009 Lotfi A. Zadeh
Category: Electrical Engineering
2009 Richard J. Robbins
Category: Engineering
2009 Stephen J. Benkovic
Category: Life Science
2008 Albert Eschenmosere
Category: Chemistry
2008 Judea Pearl
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2008 James Thorp
Category: Electrical Engineering
2008 Wallace Broecker
Category: Earth Science
2008 Deborah Lin
Category: Physics
2008 Arun Phadke
Category: Electrical Engineering
2008 David Baulcombe
Category: Life Science
2007 Klaus Biemann
Category: Chemistry
2007 Steven W. Squyres
Category: Earth Science
2007 Robert H. Dennard
Category: Electrical Engineering
2007 Nancy S. Wexler
Category: Life Science
2007 Merton C. Flemings
Category: Materials Science
2007 Arthur B. McDonald
Category: Physics
2007 Yoji Totsuka
Category: Physics
2006 Samuel J. Danishefsky
Category: Chemistry
2006 Donald Norman
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2006 Luna B. Leopold
Category: Earth Science
2006 M. Gordon Wolman
Category: Earth Science
2006 Ray W. Clough
Category: Engineering
2006 Fernando Nottebohm
Category: Life Science
2006 J. Peter Toennies
Category: Physics
2005 Aravind K. Joshi
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2005 Peter R. Vail
Category: Earth Science
2005 Andrew J. Viterbi
Category: Electrical Engineering
2005 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
Category: Life Science
2005 Yoichiro Nambu
Category: Physics
2004 Harry B. Gray
Category: Chemistry
2004 Richard M. Karp
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2004 Robert E. Newnham
Category: Electrical Engineering
2004 Roger Bacon
Category: Mechanical Engineering
2004 Robert B. Meyer
Category: Physics
2003 Robin M. Hochstrasser
Category: Chemistry
2003 John McCarthy
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2003 Norman A. Philips
Category: Earth Science
2003 Joseph Smagorinsky
Category: Earth Science
2003 Bishnu S. Atal
Category: Electrical Engineering
2003 Charles H. Thornton
Category: Engineering
2003 Jane Goodall
Category: Life Science
2003 John N. Bahcall
Category: Physics
2003 Raymond Davis
Category: Physics
2003 Masatoshi Koshiba
Category: Physics
2002 Norman L. Allinger
Category: Chemistry
2002 Lucy Suchman
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2002 Alexandra Navrotsky
Category: Earth Science
2002 Shuji Nakamura
Category: Engineering
2002 Mary-Dell Chilton
Category: Life Science
2002 Sumio Iijima
Category: Physics
2001 K. Barry Sharpless
Category: Chemistry
2001 Marvin Minsky
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2001 Rob Van der Voo
Category: Earth Science
2001 Bernard Widrow
Category: Electrical Engineering
2001 Judah Folkman
Category: Life Science
2001 Alan H. Guth
Category: Physics
2000 Robert H. Grubbs
Category: Chemistry
2000 John Cocke
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
2000 Eville Gorham
Category: Earth Science
2000 Antoine Labeyrie
Category: Electrical Engineering
2000 Gordon Danby
Category: Mechanical Engineering
2000 James R. Powell
Category: Mechanical Engineering
2000 Eric Cornell
Category: Physics
2000 Wolfgang Ketterle
Category: Physics
2000 Carl Wieman
Category: Physics
1999 Walter Kaminsky
Category: Chemistry
1999 Noam Chomsky
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
1999 Douglas C. Engelbart
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
1999 Richard W. Shorthill
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
1999 Victor Vali
Category: Computer and Cognitive Science
1999 Barry J. Marshall
Category: Life Science
1999 John C. Mather
Category: Physics
1999 Akira Tonomura
Category: Physics
1998 Ahmed H. Zewail
Category: Chemistry
1998 Emmanuel Desurvire
Category: Engineering
1998 David N. Payne
Category: Engineering
1998 Stanley B. Prusiner
Category: Life Science
1998 Robert B. Laughlin
Category: Physics
1998 Horst L. Stormer
Category: Physics
1998 Daniel C. Tsui
Category: Physics