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Year
2015
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Huntsman Corporation │ Salt Lake City, Utah
Citation
For his innovative leadership in founding the Huntsman Corporation and building it into one of the world's preeminent chemical companies; and for his global leadership in philanthropy, with a special focus on cancer research and treatment in support of some of the highest-impact developments towards curing cancer.
Year
2013
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Tokyo, Japan
Citation
For the conception and development of the vertical cavity surface emitting laser and its multiple applications to optoelectronics.
Year
2002
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Meijo University | Nagoya, Japan
Citation
For the discovery and elucidation of the atomic structure and helical character of multi-wall and single-wall carbon nanotubes, which have had an enormous impact on the rapidly growing condensed matter and materials science field of nanoscale science and electronics.
Year
2001
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Qualcomm Incorporated | San Diego, California
Citation
CDMA technology; business & scientific leadership in telephony
Year
2013
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For discovering heritable controls of gene expression that are independent of the DNA sequence information. These mechanisms affect normal development and diseases, such as cancer, and suggest promising new therapies.
Year
2008
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, Colorado
Citation
For her pioneering investigations of the quantum properties of an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms, atoms that cannot occupy the same quantum state, and in particular for the creation of the first quantized gas of fermionic atoms.
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.