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Year
2018
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Texas at Austin│ Austin, Texas
Citation
For his development of the first practical, rechargeable lithium-ion battery cathode material, lithium cobalt oxide, which has revolutionized lightweight, portable electric power.
Year
2000
Subject
Earth Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN
Citation
For seminal contributions in understanding the ways plants interact with their environment, and the use of this knowledge to measure the source of the contents of air, and the effects of air contents on plants and the environment in general.
Year
2022
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Johnson & Johnson │ New Brunswick, New Jersey
Citation
With Stéphane Bancel and Albert Bourla, for their collective leadership during the COVID-19 crisis, principally the development and distribution of exceptionally effective vaccines on an unprecedented timescale.
Year
2009
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | New Brunswick, New Jersey
Citation
For pioneering research leading to our understanding of the unique ecosystems near volcanic vents at the sea floor, the first ever found fueled by chemical energy from the Earth's interior instead of sunlight.
Year
2000
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | Pasadena, CA
Citation
For his wide ranging seminal contributions to greatly advance and expand the field of olefin metathesis, a unique carbon-carbon bond breaking/making process, that has enormously added to the chemist's capabilities at making a broad range of drugs and other useful complex molecules, improved rubbers, and plastics for laboratory and commercial applications.
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.