Congratulations to the 2009 Nobel Prize Winners! Four are Franklin Laureates: Elizabeth Blackburn (2005), Charles K. Kao (1977), Willard S. Boyle (1973), and George E. Smith (1973).
2010 Laureates
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W. Richard Peltier |
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William H. Gates III |
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JoAnne Stubbe |
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Shafrira Goldwasser |
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Gerhard M. Sessler |
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James E. West |
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Peter C. Nowell |
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D. Brian Spalding |
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J. Ignacio Cirac |
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David J. Wineland |
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Peter Zoller |
Call for Nominations
The Franklin Institute invites you to nominate candidates for the Bower Award for Business Leadership and the Benjamin Franklin Medals. The nomination deadline for the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science has passed. When the 2011 call is issued, information will be posted here.
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For 185 years, The Franklin Institute has honored the greatest men and women of science, engineering, and technology. The Franklin Institute Awards are among the oldest and most prestigious comprehensive science awards in the world.
Among science's highest honors, The Franklin Institute Awards identify individuals whose great innovation has benefited humanity, advanced science, launched new fields of inquiry, and deepened our understanding of the universe.
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