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Year
2023
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Citation
For fundamental advances in high-precision methods for dating geologic records of climate change, leading to a more detailed understanding of the earth’s climate system over the past million years.
Year
1999
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
The Bootstrap Institute | Freemont, CA
Citation
For his outstanding contributions in computer hardware and software that revolutionized human-computer interactions.
Year
2023
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citation
For transformative innovations in engineering novel materials that interact with electromagnetic waves in unprecedented ways, with broad applications in ultrafast computing and communication technologies.
Year
2008
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich │Zürich, Switzerland
│ The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology │The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
Citation
For seminal investigations into the origin of nucleic acid structure, which through systematic chemical synthesis have begun to answer the fundamentally important question of why DNA and RNA have the structures they do.
Year
2009
Subject
Physics
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory | University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, California
Citation
For extraordinary advances in our knowledge of the properties of distant galaxies, dark matter, large scale structure of the Universe, and black holes in galactic nuclei; and for innovative leadership in the development of astronomical facilities.
Notes:
- "Franklin" Medals are not the same as "Benjamin Franklin" Medals. The Benjamin Franklin Medal was initiated in 1998 to represent the combined legacies of several historic medals, including the Franklin Medal.
- The Scott Medal is awarded by the City of Philadelphia. Prior to 1920, the Institute's Committee on Science and the Arts selected the medalists and the Scott Medals were presented on Awards Day at The Franklin Institute.
- For more information about The Franklin Institute Awards program, contact the Awards Program Director at awards@fi.edu.